sandstone - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • overlie: Throughout the entire area are seams of diabase, with large slabs of diabase in some areas overlying ancient sandstone.
  • erode: Such features could provide additional small sources of " fresh " flints, together with some input from the eroding Eocene sandstones.
  • carve: At the north of Lake Mead is the Valley of Fire State Park, with its fascinating landscape of naturally carved red sandstone.
  • quarry: It was originally an estate village whose inhabitants quarried red sandstone in the surrounding area.

Adjective modifier

  • Triassic: At the north end of the reserve area there is an outcrop of Triassic sandstone.
  • permo-triassic: The same applies to the Permo-Triassic sandstones of the South West; elsewhere levels are generally low albeit above corresponding levels in 1997.
  • Devonian: As one climbs up through Devonian sandstone along a wooded valley one can hear but not see a stream.
  • fine-grained: The building, which is of a fine-grained red sandstone, has apparently been at one period of great extent.
  • buff: Both door and window are in relatively modern, pale buff sandstone, and there are signs of insertion.
  • Carboniferous: The north east of the county lies on Carboniferous sandstone.

Modifies a noun

  • dressing: Windows treated consistently with gray sandstone dressings, all splayed.
  • quoin: East wall: whole wall in Fabric ' C ' with occasional sandstone quoins; modern east window of three stepped lancets.
  • outcrop: We have a short walk among deep white sandstone outcrops resembling imaginary huge castles.
  • ashlar: Fabrics: ' A ' is of sandstone ashlar, buff in color, medium to large in size, largely coursed.
  • cliff: The river winds its way through giant red sandstone cliffs toward the awesome King George Falls.
  • paving: Our sandstone paving stone can be delivered anywhere in the UK.

Noun used with modifier

  • buff-yellow: The aperture for the single bell has a two-centred arch with chamfered dressings in buff-yellow sandstone.
  • greywacke: Lower Paleozoic greywacke sandstones were deposited in a deep marine environment and may have volcanic ash beds and conglomerates within.
  • ashlar: Red brick with contrasting yellow brick and ashlar sandstone dressings.
  • quartz: Granophyre, because the conglomerate and quartz sandstone lie on top of it and the conglomerate contains some pebbles of granophyre.

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