Results for Wacke

Definitions of Wacke:

part of speech: noun

A German miner's term for a soft earthy variety of trap- rock of a greyish- green colour, resembling indurated clay, and readily crumbling down when exposed to the weather.

part of speech: noun

German miners term for a soft, grayish kind of trap- rock.

Usage examples for Wacke:

• A beautiful bust of gray- wacke in our possession probably represents the same king. "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers

• 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. "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell