cross-bedded
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Coarse cross-bedded sandstones record the action of strong shifting currents which spread coarse waste near shore and winnowed it of finer stuff.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
It is a gracefully domed temple in the cross-bedded sandstone, and clearly reveals its five hundred feet superior height over Horus.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
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 George Wharton James
In climbing back, my eye, now sharpened by my geologic reading, dwelt frequently and long upon the horizon where that cross-bedded Carboniferous sandstone joins the Carboniferous limestone above it.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
When about a mile down, the separation line between the cross-bedded sandstone and the upper red sandstone is clearly revealed to the left of the trail.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
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