Noun: graywacke
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: greywacke)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: greywacke)
- Hard dark-colored sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix
"Geologists found extensive graywacke formations in the coastal cliffs";
- greywacke
Derived forms: graywackes
Encyclopedia: Graywacke