arenaceous
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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 Hugh Miller
Cornstone is a limestone containing a large quantity of arenaceous matter or sand.
From Geology by James Geikie
Sandy; partaking of the qualities of sand; brittle; as, arenaceous limestone, quartz, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
At Hunstanton, on the north, the undermining of the lower arenaceous beds at the foot of the cliff, causes masses of red and white chalk to be precipitated from above.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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 Henry Alleyne Nicholson
