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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Passage from wacke into trap; singular volcanic rock with the vesicles half-filled with mesotype.

From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles

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