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Argillaceous   Listen
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Argillaceous  adj.  Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.
Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay.
Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone.
Argillaceous schist or Argillaceous state. See Argillite.






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"Argillaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... contains about 450 square miles, or 288,000 acres. Opposite St. Louis, in St. Clair county, the bluffs are seven miles from the river, and filled with inexhaustible beds of coal. The soil of this bottom is an argillaceous or a silicious loam, according as clay or sand happens to ...
— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

... has melted, the surface of the ice-wilderness has quite a different appearance. The snow has disappeared and the ground is now formed of a blue ice, which however is not clean, but everywhere rendered dirty by a grey argillaceous dust, carried to the surface of the glacier by wind and rain, probably from distant mountain heights. Among this clay, and even directly on the ice itself, there is a scanty covering of low vegetable ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold



Words linked to "Argillaceous" :   clayey, arenaceous, argil



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