arenaceous

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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

Its lower portion, for a thickness of from 500 to 1000 feet, is arenaceous, and is known as the Hastings Sands.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne

Rocks, definition of, 14; divisions of, 14, 15; igneous, 14; aqueous, 15-18; mechanically-formed, 18-20; chemically-formed, 20; organically-formed, 20-37; arenaceous, 20; argillaceous, 20; calcareous, 20-32; siliceous, 20, 32-34.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne

The sandy deserts of the rainless districts of Chili are also of great extent: and there are few countries in even the higher latitudes that have not their tracts of arenaceous waste.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

There was little grass about the river for the ferruginous finely-grained sandstone formed still the riverbank, and was exactly similar to the arenaceous rock on the eastern coast.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas