siliceous sandstone

Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.

The appellant operates a quarry from which it extracts bur stone, also called siliceous sandstone.

Grows in open woodland or shrubland in shallow sandy soils over siliceous sandstone.

Lithologically, its stones are siliceous sandstone which probably come from Illumbe, the slope of Usoteguieta mountain.

The cone is partially lignitic with permineralized ovules, 13 cm long × 4 cm wide, and occurs in a siliceous sandstone matrix.

The surface soil is clay in which are embedded fragments of siliceous sandstone, used for millstones and constructional purposes; the subsoil is limestone.

The lithic utensils come in numerous atypical forms and are fashioned of quartzite and siliceous sandstone while an additional small number are made of flint.

We were now walking on granite mixed with siliceous sandstone; the soil shivered under our feet like the sides of boilers in which over-heated steam is forcibly confined.

The foundation of the reservoir is a steep-sided narrow canyon composed of siliceous sandstone and hard quartzites inter-bedded with softer shales, siltstones, and argillites.

The upper portion, called the Moose Mountain Member, consists of hard, medium grey to brownish grey weathering, siliceous sandstone with rare beds of carbonaceous mudstone and coal.

In time though, the original 'acidic' liner, made from siliceous sandstone or ganister, of the Bessemer converter was replaced by a 'basic' liner in the developed Gilchrist Thomas process.

The Northern Kimberley This is tissected plateau of Kimberley Basin, covered with savanna woodland of Woolybutt and Darwin Stringybark over high Sorghum grasses and Plectrachne schinzii hummock grasses on shallow sandy soils on outcropping Proterozoic siliceous sandstone strata.