wacke

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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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

The newest of these, connected with the higher series of coal- measures, is well exhibited along the shores of the Forth, in Fifeshire, where they consist of basalt with olivine, amygdaloid, greenstone, wacke, and tuff.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir