gypseous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gypseous
From the Late Latin word gypseus, dating back to 1655–65. See gypsum, -eous
Example Sentences
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Here the great gypseous formation abruptly terminates, and is succeeded eastward by a pile of more modern strata.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
Even in these days, when commerce and industry have fallen so low in those regions, the gypseous alabaster from the neighbourhood of Mossoul is transported in no unimportant quantities as far as Bagdad.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Only at one spot on this western side, on a lofty pinnacle not far from the Cumbre, I saw strata apparently belonging to the gypseous formation, and conformably capping a pile of stratified porphyries.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
Between San Caterina and Castrogiovanni, in Sicily, bent and undulating gypseous marls occur, with here and there thin beds of solid gypsum interstratified.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
But this is the case; we find those fissures filled both with calcareous, gypseous, and pyritous substances.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
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