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English

Noun

  1. A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sandstone \Sand"stone`\, n.
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or
siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Different names are applied to the various kinds of
sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic,
argillaceous, micaceous, etc.
[1913 Webster]

Flexible sandstone (Min.), the finer-grained variety of
itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the
lamination is quite flexible.

Red sandstone, a name given to two extensive series of
British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one
below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were
formerly known as the Old and the New Red Sandstone
respectively, and the former name is still retained for
the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian
age, but the term New Red Sandstone is now little used,
some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the
remained as Triassic. See the Chart of Geology.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet sandstone
n : a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some
cement (clay or quartz etc.)
Moby Dictionary
aa , abyssal rock , basalt , bedrock , block lava , brash , breccia ,
conglomerate , crag , druid stone , festooned pahoehoe , gneiss ,
granite , igneous rock , lava , limestone , living rock , magma ,
mantlerock , metamorphic rock , monolith , pahoehoe , pillow lava ,
porphyry , pudding stone , regolith , rock , ropy lava , rubble ,
rubblestone , sarsen , schist , scoria , scree , sedimentary rock ,
shelly pahoehoe , stone , talus , tufa , tuff


Sandstone, MN (city, FIPS 58396) Location: 46.12517 N, 92.86459 W Population (1990): 2057 (538 housing units) Area: 11.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Sandstone, WV Zip code(s): 25985
Moby Dictionary 1549
Housing Units (2000): 634
Land area (2000): 5.296212 sq. miles (13.717125 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.139947 sq. miles (0.362461 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.436159 sq. miles (14.079586 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58396
Located within: Minnesota (MN) , FIPS 27
Location: 46.129711 N , 92.864868 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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