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 newest of these, connected with the higher series of coal- measures, is well exhibited along the shores of the Forth, in Fifeshire, where they consist of basalt with olivine, amygdaloid, greenstone, wacke, and tuff.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
TAHITI.—Passage from wacke into trap; singular volcanic rock with the vesicles half-filled with mesotype.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
