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wacke

[ wak-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a poorly sorted sandstone containing fragments of rock and minerals in a clayey matrix.

wacke

/ ˈwækə /

obsolete.
any of various soft earthy rocks that resemble or are derived from basaltic rocks

Origin of wacke¹

1795–1805; < German: a kind of stone

Origin of wacke¹

C18: from German: rock, gravel, basalt

Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.

Wacke, wak′e, n. German miners' term for a soft, grayish kind of trap-rock.

These banks rise in some instances to hills of firm rock, generally wacke.

The material of the rock here is wacke, in which there are many flints.

Wackelfiguren means figures made of Wacke, a greenish-gray mineral, soft and easily broken.

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