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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sandstone \Sand"stone'\, noun A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Note: Different names are applied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous, etc.
{Flexible sandstone} (Min.), the finer-grained variety of itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the lamination is quite flexible.
{Red sandstone}, a name given to two extensive series of British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were formerly known as the Old and the New Red Sandstone respectively, and the former name is still retained for the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian age, but the term New Red Sandstone is now little used, some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the remained as Triassic. See the Chart of {Geology}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sandstone
noun: a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "sandstone": aa, abyssal rock, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brash, breccia, conglomerate, crag, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, granite, igneous rock, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, stone, talus, tufa, tuff
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Sandstone, MN (city, FIPS 58396) Location: 46.12517 N, 92.86459 W Population (1990): 2057 (538 housing units) Area: 11.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Sandstone, WV Zip code(s): 25985
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Sandstone, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota Population (2000): 1549 Housing Units (2000): 634 Land area (2000): 5.296212 sq. miles (13.717125 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.139947 sq. miles (0.362461 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.436159 sq. miles (14.079586 sq. km) FIPS code: 58396 Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27 Location: 46.129711 N, 92.864868 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Sandstone, MN Sandstone
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