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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sandstone \sand"stone`\, n.
   a rock made of sand more or less firmly united. common or
   siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
   1913 webster

   note: different names are applied to the various kinds of
         sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic,
         argillaceous, micaceous, etc.
         1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
flexible sandstone red sandstone geology 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sandstone
     n : a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some
         cement clay or quartz etc.

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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




[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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 codes: 25985

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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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