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Noun: greywacke
  1. Hard dark-coloured sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix
    "Geologists found extensive greywacke formations in the coastal cliffs";
    - graywacke [N. Amer]

Derived forms: greywackes

Encyclopedia: Greywacke