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GRAVEL, or Pebble Beds, the name given to deposits of rounded, subangular, water-worn stones, mingled with finer material such as sand and clay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

The angular and subangular stones that it contained were an irregular mixture of different varieties of trap, conglomerate, and schistose rocks.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas

The sand of the soil and subsoil is composed of very coarse rounded and subangular quartz particles.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by Head, James William

The hinder edge of the lower jaw has a peculiar form, owing to the great development of an expanded, compressed and somewhat inverted subangular process.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

Flint-gravel, and whitish chalky sand, flints subangular,      average size of fragments, 3 inches diameter, but with some      large unbroken Chalk flints intermixed, cross stratification      in parts.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir