For instance, an arenaceous shale deposit in Sweden is a greenish-gray color, while in Kansas occurrences of the rock are red, and in China examples have been found that are a purplish hue. From LearnThat.org. [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/polarized/gallery/pages/shalearenaceous1large.html]
arenaceous limestone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Pterocles, found in arenaceous limestone (Durand). From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
(Milam.) and arenaceous benthics (Ar. benth) dominate KC23 profile. From Wordnik.com. [Domack on the Larsen 1-A Ice Shelf « Climate Audit] Reference
I found myself when I entered in a gloomy chamber hewn out of a brown arenaceous clay. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
We got up at six to get the bird into the oven, so it can be totally desiccated, friable, granular, sabulous, arenaceous, the way turkey always is. From Wordnik.com. [A vlog about Thanksgiving squirrel, Mancow, guns, law school, commenters, and Madison versus New York.] Reference
It would seem that these two ranges skirting a part of the northern and southern banks of the Lower Amazons are not the only remnants of this arenaceous formation in its primitive altitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It contains calcareous matter; the sandy soil grades down to a thick arenaceous "caliche" which is a layer of sand cemented into a limestone by interstitial deposition of calcium carbonate. From Wordnik.com. [Western Gulf coastal grasslands] Reference
"An arenaceous ulster -- speaking etymologically," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
Is it an arenaceous rock analogous to green sandstone, or does it belong to the sandstone of. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Probably nine tenths of all the coast lines of the open ocean are formed of arenaceous material. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
Is it an arenaceous rock analogous to green sandstone, or does it belong to the sandstone of Cocollar?. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The breccia at Jaffna contains recent shells, as does also the arenaceous strata on the western coast of. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
It is not easy, when several formations are not perfectly developed, to determine the age of arenaceous rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
In places the gneiss has been so little changed by heat and pressure that it forms arenaceous flags and shales. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
The Arabs say that, once "submerged" beneath the arenaceous "flood", a man loses the power to extricate himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
Cocollar, of Bergantin or to the gypsum of the Llanos, because nothing as yet proves the independence of those arenaceous and gypsous soils. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Red arenaceous beds of great thickness alternate with grayish-colored bands, composed of a ripple-marked micaceous slate and a stratified clay. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
From Ash creek to this place, an almost precipitous wall of arenaceous rock, limestone, and marl, shuts the high prairie from the river bottoms. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
Among the first I found a couple of miles below the mouth of the Madrigal, a black rock sUghtly arenaceous, very com - pact and fiill of white grains. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
On an arenaceous strip projecting from the western edge the women were washing and panning where the bottom of the digging was below that of the river. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
All i auto insurance century say ostentatiously this streptomycin is that the arenaceous is sprucely, the garrulinae is sooner, and the quinacrine is barreled. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The arenaceous or argillaceous stuff in which they lie embedded is extremely hard, and strongly impregnated with iron, usually in the form of iron pyrites, which binds it together. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of South Africa] Reference
There was little grass about the river for the ferruginous finely-grained sandstone formed still the riverbank, and was exactly similar to the arenaceous rock on the eastern coast. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
They issue from granite (Las Trincheras), gneiss (Mariara and Onoto) and the calcareous and arenaceous rocks that cover the primitive rocks (Morros de San Juan, Bergantin, Cariaco). From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
So again with land animals: the differences in their stations are those of different soils and neighbourhoods; some being best adapted to a calcareous, and others to an arenaceous soil. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The presence of cyanite, rutile-titanite, and garnets, and the absence of Lydian stone, and all fragmentary or arenaceous rocks, seem to characterise the formation we describe as primitive. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
It serves to throw some light on the origin of those continuous bands of clayey or arenaceous ironstone, which in the older formations in which vegetable matter abounds, whether Oölitic or. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
Unlike, however, the arrangement on the mainland, it is the newer rocks that attain to the higher elevations; the heights of Hoy are composed of that arenaceous upper member of the Lower Old Red. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
I have not given the name formation either to the sandstone of the Orinoco, of Cocollar, of Bergantin or to the gypsum of the Llanos, because nothing as yet proves the independence of those arenaceous and gypsous soils. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Before a part of the immense plains of America was geologically examined, it might have been supposed that their uniform and continued horizontality was caused by alluvial soils, or at least by arenaceous tertiary strata. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
12 Textural maturity of arenaceous rocks derived by microscopic grain size analysis in thin section - Song Tianrui. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome] Reference
Trincheras), gneiss (Mariara and Onoto) and the calcareous and arenaceous rocks that cover the primitive rocks (Morros de San Juan, Bergantin. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
(Hagul), backed by tall arenaceous buttresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
7. arenaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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