arenaceous

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Such are the cotton-wood and the beech-grape, species which are usually confined to the arenaceous alluvions of valleys.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

It appears that the numerous caverns of the Morea occur in a compact limestone, of the age of the English chalk, immediately below which are arenaceous strata referred to the period of our greensand.

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

Probably nine tenths of all the coast lines of the open ocean are formed of arenaceous material.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate

The phenomenon that had broken over the arenaceous couch, upon which slept the four castaways, was neither more nor less than a “sandstorm”; or, to give it its Arab title, a simoom.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne

On an arenaceous strip projecting from the western edge the women were washing and panning where the bottom of the digging was below that of the river.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir