noun. A sedimentary rock formed by the consolidation and compaction of sand and held together by a natural cement, such as silica.

noun. A rock formed by the consolidation of Sand.

noun. A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

noun. the finer-grained variety of itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the lamination is quite flexible.

noun. 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.

noun. A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.

noun. a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

"I have many windows I'm fond of remembering, but my favorite is looking out the tent flap, sometimes out of the cliffside shelter site (no 'caves' in sandstone) in North Ponil Canyon outside of Cimarron, NM, during summer hail storms, marveling at the fusion of hail into golfball-to-baseball sizes that when they fell, ripped through the trees, causing a wafting of pine scent sweeping through the canyon."

New Red Sandstone  aux vases sandstone  berea sandstone  bukowka sandstone  cape girardeau sandstone  

arenaceous rock  

bluestone  brownstone  firestone  greensand  grit  

alabaster  basalt  brick  chalk  clay  

aa  abyssal rock  basalt  bedrock  block lava