sandstone

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Preservation becomes even more difficult in sandstone, a rock made of coarse grains that allow water to pass through easily and typically forms in turbulent environments shaped by waves and storms.

From Science Daily

Not even Dickensian “A Christmas Carol” visitations by the specters of his father and an Indonesian business partner negotiating a project involving a sandstone reservoir with “significant extraction costs” diminish his concomitant guilt and chagrin.

From Los Angeles Times

They went to the Valley of Fire State Park, which features fantastical sandstone formations the same color as the museum’s renderings.

From Los Angeles Times

Swedish golfer Simon Forsstrom, pausing on the 14th tee to admire a red sandstone tomb behind him -- a miniature echo of the Taj Mahal -- was equally impressed.

From Barron's

However, a local businessman said he had been into the tunnel in recent weeks, passing on a photo of a perfectly preserved space cut into the sandstone.

From BBC