wacke

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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.

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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.

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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.

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The range bordering the eastern shore of the lake is basalt and basaltic wacke; on the western, it is partly gypsum and limestone, but resting on basalt.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

In other places the banks are covered by the debris of a slate-clay slightly bituminous, resembling wacke in its mode of disintegrating.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John