Definition of sandstone

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Sandstone (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

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Scrubstone :: Scrubstone (n.) A species of calciferous sandstone.
Sandstone :: Sandstone (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Firestone :: Firestone (n.) A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces..
Asterolepis :: Asterolepis (n.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone..
Arenilitic :: Arenilitic (a.) Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains..
Graduate :: Graduate (v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz..
Cephalaspis :: Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points..
Dinosauria :: Dinosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large bird tracks, so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix..
Brownstone :: Brownstone (n.) A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes..
Laterite :: Laterite (n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India..
Scolithus :: Scolithus (n.) A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm..
Grain :: Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain..
Silex :: Silex (n.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic..
Brontozoum :: Brontozoum (n.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone..
Clastic :: Clastic (a.) Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock..
Psammite :: Psammite (n.) A species of micaceous sandstone.
Foralite :: Foralite (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata..
Toph :: Toph (n.) kind of sandstone.
Otozoum :: Otozoum (n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones..
Tilestone :: Tilestone (n.) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
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