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单词 old and new red sandstone
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Old and New Red Sandstone
A rock composed of consolidated sand. Old and New Red Sandstone: two series of British rocks lying respectively below and above the carboniferous.
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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 241 Saxum Arenarium, Sand~stone.
1768 A. Catcott Treat. Deluge (ed. 2) iii. 249 A red Sand-stone.
1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Apr. xvii. 45 Old red sandstone.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 263 Fair Island, said to be composed of sandstone with high perpendicular cliffs.
1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) xi. 235 We enter on a district of New Red Sandstone.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha iv. 62 There the ancient Arrow-maker Made his arrow-heads of sandstone.
1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 65 Sandstones are essentially littoral and shallow sea formations.
1879 A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen II. viii. 437 Low round-headed arches of red sandstone.
attributive.1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 358 Sandstone Porphyry.1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 287 A sandstone quarry.1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 127 Sandstone-schist.
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