sandstone
IPA: sˈændstoʊn
noun
- A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
- A small town and local government area (the Shire of Sandstone) in the Mid West region, Western Australia.
- A place in the United States:
- A charter township and unincorporated community therein, in Jackson County, Michigan.
- A city and township in Pine County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia.
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Examples of "sandstone" in Sentences
- Slower water deposits sands and silts called sandstone and siltstone.
- The Annunciation cut from sandstone, which is in Santa Croce, is one of his earliest works, and is full of grace and nobleness (Fig. 84).
- Near Cumnock (Egypt) is a large exposure of a brownish red, compact sandstone, which is exposed along the banks of Deep river for a distance of half a mile.
- A hundred and fifty feet from this pueblo is a large upright block of sandstone, which is said to be used as a datum point in the observations of the sun made by a priest of
- On you go, winding on down past the red limestone and the yellow limestone and the blue sandstone, which is green generally; past huge bat caves and the big nests of pack-rats, tucked under shelves of
- The last and most recent of the three groups was the Huastecas with their rich work carved in sandstone and their temple murals in black, ocher, brown, red and white and decorated with sculptures of humans, birds, and serpents.
- The top course of the table land is a layer of magnetic ironstone, which attracted my compass upwards of 20 degrees; underneath is a layer of red sandstone, and below that is an immense mass of white sandstone, which is very soft, and crumbling away with the action of the atmosphere.
- I have many windows I'm fond of remembering, but my favorite is looking out the tent flap, sometimes out of the cliffside shelter site (no 'caves' in sandstone) in North Ponil Canyon outside of Cimarron, NM, during summer hail storms, marveling at the fusion of hail into golfball-to-baseball sizes that when they fell, ripped through the trees, causing a wafting of pine scent sweeping through the canyon.
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