wacke
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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
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 wacke is of a fine grain, and its constituents are indistinctly mingled; it is traversed by empty holes and bubbles, and occasionally by druses of zeolith.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Yet it is by no means apparent that these alone have contributed to form the present surface, the south-eastern side of the field terminating in much older formation of wacke.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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