wacke

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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.

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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.

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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.

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The rock is very often of a gray color; hence the name, grau, being German for gray, and wacke, being a provincial miner's term.

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

Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker