sandstone Definition
sand·stone (sand′stōn′)
noun
a common bedded sedimentary rock much used for building, composed largely of sand grains, mainly quartz, held together by silica, lime, etc.
sandstone Synonyms
sandstone
n.
Varieties of sandstone include: arkrose, freestone, brownstone, flagstone, bluestone, grit, novaculite, Triassic brownstone, Berea sandstone, Medina sandstone, Potsdam quartzite, Old Red Sandstone, New Red Sandstone;
sandstone Usage Examples
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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