wacke
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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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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.
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The rock is very often of a gray color; hence the name, grau, being German for gray, and wacke, being a provincial miner's term.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The basis of these lower lavas is rather wacke than basalt; when it is spongy, it resembles the amygdaloids* of Frankfort-on-the-Main.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
