wacke
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wacke
1795–1805; < German: a kind of stone
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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.
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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.
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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
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These banks rise in some instances to hills of firm rock, generally wacke.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
It comprehends any rock in which round or almond-shaped nodules of some mineral, such as agate, chalcedony, calcareous spar, or zeolite, are scattered through a base of wacke, basalt, greenstone, or other kind of trap.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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