arenaceous
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The common sand-carex and other arenaceous plants bind the loose sand-dunes of our coasts, and give them a permanence, which would at once be destroyed were the sand laid bare again to storms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
In other cases, as in some of the beds of the Carboniferous limestone in the North of England, where the limestone is highly "arenaceous," there is a modification of the oolitic structure.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Such are the cotton-wood and the beech-grape, species which are usually confined to the arenaceous alluvions of valleys.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Cornstone is a limestone containing a large quantity of arenaceous matter or sand.
From Geology by James Geikie
Sand-dunes in deserts or on coasts are unconsolidated arenaceous rock-masses.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
