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
Usage examples for Wacke:
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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