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Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ARKOSES
ARKOSES
Definitions of ARKOSES
- plural of arkose.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using ARKOSES in a Sentence
- Sandstones rich in quartz are called quartz arenites, those rich in feldspar are called arkoses, and those rich in lithics are called lithic sandstones.
- The arkoses, which exist as detritus (particularly vein quartz, quartzite, lydite, metamorphic rocks and volcanic rocks) as well as bits more than a centimetre across, almost always containing weathered feldspars, are deposits in channels of a many-branched river system that flowed across the Saar–Nahe Basin from southwest to northeast.
- Along the southwestern and western border the granodiorite is transgressed by liassic arkoses belonging to the sedimentary infill of the Aquitaine Basin.
- 2 indicated that the lower part starts with up to 12 m of kaolinitic clay succeeded by a 15–20 m thick sequence of cross-bedded arkoses and light-coloured clays, being called Boserup beds or Thaumatopteris schenki zone (Pinuspollenites-Trachysporites Miospore Zone).
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