arenaceous

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The Arabs say that, once “submerged” beneath the arenaceous “flood”, a man loses the power to extricate himself.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne

Cornstone is a limestone containing a large quantity of arenaceous matter or sand.

From Geology by Geikie, James

But there are other reasons for the comparative paucity of fossils in arenaceous strata, as we shall see presently.

From Geology by Geikie, James

Large masses, also, are continually taken up of an arenaceous rock, cemented by calcareous matter, including multitudes of broken shells of recent species.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The common sand-carex and other arenaceous plants bind the loose sand-dunes of our coasts, and give them a permanence, which would at once be destroyed were the sand laid bare again to storms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various