cross-bedded
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The trail is very pleasant here, springs of excellent water coming out from under the cross-bedded sandstone and trees of considerable size shadowing the way.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
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
In sections of river banks one may often see a vertical succession of cross-bedded strata, each built in the way described.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
This was not unlike the cross-bedded sandstone in colour, but lacked its warmth and richness of tint.
From Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb
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
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