SANDSTONE


Meaning of SANDSTONE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

red

The video opens in a red sandstone canyon.

Built between 1846 and 1848, mainly of local red sandstone , it carries the line 169 feet above the river.

Nearer Lexington Avenue, the shops that had invaded the row of red sandstone town houses were beginning to open.

The land is old red sandstone with a very high content of fine silts.

Architecturally, as in other ways, this pleasing street scene was dominated by an elegant seven-bay house in red Quantock sandstone .

Three hundred metres down this narrow road, opposite a red sandstone church, are the meadows.

Scenes will take place in remote woodland as well as the disused red sandstone Irby quarry.

The Island is composed mainly of red sandstone .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A Barren Measures' sandstone reservoir study was based on log analysis of three wells in the study area.

Fossils are harder to remove intact from sandstone than from clay.

From above, the sandstone looks like solid rock, terminating at a 20-foot cliff.

Limestone and sandstone are quite unsuitable.

Note: sandstone grades are for on-sight ascents using rope knots for the first time.

Now it stood clear: the reek of fish, and sandstone cut with a Presbyterian trowel.

Suddenly patches of pink sandstone were again visible in the courtyard.

This delicate fern is preserved in a very fine-grained sandstone , which fractures rather irregularly.

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