siltstone
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| a variety of fine sandstone formed from consolidated silt | |
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| siltstone (sĭlt'stōn') Pronunciation Key
A fine-grained sedimentary rock consisting primarily of compacted and hardened silt. Siltstones are similar to shale but without laminations. They vary in color from black or gray to brown or red. |
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Example sentences
When deposits of silt are compressed and the grains are pressed together, rocks such as siltstone form.
The left abutment and spillway are founded on weathered siltstone bedrock and alluvial deposits.
Commonly cliff-forming, cross-bedded sandstone lenses alternating with slope-forming siltstone, mudstone and shale.
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