wacke
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wacke
1795–1805; < German: a kind of stone
Example Sentences
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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.
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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The newest of these, connected with the higher series of coal- measures, is well exhibited along the shores of the Forth, in Fifeshire, where they consist of basalt with olivine, amygdaloid, greenstone, wacke, and tuff.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The wacke is of a fine grain, and its constituents are indistinctly mingled; it is traversed by empty holes and bubbles, and occasionally by druses of zeolith.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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