Old Red Sandstone

noun

1. a thick sequence of sedimentary rock (generally, but not always, red) deposited in Britain and NW Europe during the Devonian period
2. (in Britain) another term for Devonian

Example Sentences

Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.

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It is not known how far normal sediments are associated with the Old Red Sandstone type of deposit.

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This sandstone appears, from its texture and position, to be the "old red sandstone" of geologists.

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Asterolepis, a genus of primitive ganoid fishes, found only in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.

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Assuredly no young geologist will find more stimulating chapters than those penned by the author of the Old Red Sandstone.'

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