cherty
- a word derived from chert.
Example Sentences
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This soil is a stiff, reddish-colored clay, filled with fragments of cherty stones, quartz, and small gravel, clearly attesting its diluvial character.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Small round cherty boulders, frequently used in chipping for flints, but in this instance they seem to have been used as hammers.
Bituminous coal, with finely divided laminæ, associated with brown crystalline limestone, with cherty beds, and grey-yellowish sandstone, passing into brownish-red sandstone.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
As the uplift continues, the cherty limestone and possibly the cross-bedded sandstone are both cut through, as the plateau slowly emerges.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton
The arenacious and cherty varieties frequently occur in the same bed; sometimes they form distinct beds.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John
