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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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.
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It is not, however, apparent that they alone have formed the present state of the surface, as the south-eastern side of the plains is terminated by a much older formation of wacke.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
