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wacke
[ wak-uh ]
noun
- a poorly sorted sandstone containing fragments of rock and minerals in a clayey matrix.
wacke
/ ˈwækə /
noun
- obsolete.any of various soft earthy rocks that resemble or are derived from basaltic rocks
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wacke1
1795–1805; < German: a kind of stone
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wacke1
C18: from German: rock, gravel, basalt
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Example Sentences
Smoke-grey micaceous slaty-clay, much like certain beds of the old red sandstone, where it graduates into grey wacke.
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Wacke, wak′e, n. German miners' term for a soft, grayish kind of trap-rock.
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These banks rise in some instances to hills of firm rock, generally wacke.
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The material of the rock here is wacke, in which there are many flints.
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Wackelfiguren means figures made of Wacke, a greenish-gray mineral, soft and easily broken.
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