greensand
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of greensand
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Pockets of chalk, clay and greensand encourage an exuberant spread of botanical life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
North and south of this ridge is the lower greensand, forming in Sussex the low hills near Heathfield, Cuckfield and Petworth, and which reaches the sea south and north of Hastings.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes
As the bore gets deeper more irons are added, till the water-bearing greensand or "rock" is attained, usually in the second hundred feet of the bore.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
It appears that the numerous caverns of the Morea occur in a compact limestone, of the age of the English chalk, immediately below which are arenaceous strata referred to the period of our greensand.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
On the E. they are flanked with the Oxford clay, which reaches from Henstridge to Witham Friary, whilst a ridge of higher ground near Penselwood consists of greensand.
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
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