greywacke in a sentence
Examples
- The underlying rock is Malmesbury shale with a zone of greywacke and quartzitic limestone.
- Mesozoic limestones crop out north of the greywacke zone, forming the Northern Calcareous Alps.
- Only fragments remain of the sarcophagus, which was probably made of greywacke or basalt.
- In the Haast Schists, the minerals that make up Torlesse Greywacke became coarser grained.
- The greywacke belongs to the Waiheke group.
- Waiheke Island is mostly composed of greywacke.
- Regional parks such as Tawhitokino and Tapapakanga are good places to see greywacke boulder beaches.
- Goat Rock is such a flat topped sea stack comprised by a block of resistant greywacke.
- This is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with greywacke sandstone and is of Ordovician age.
- The basalts are interbedded with slate and greywacke, faulted, and intruded by granitic rocks.