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Definition of Grauwacke

Grauwacke
Grauwacke Grau"wack*e, n. [G.] Graywacke.

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- Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness (6–7 on Mohs...
- and 19 February 2013, it was part of the town Quedlinburg. There is a grauwacke quarry here which is also checkpoint 61 on the Harzer Wandernadel. Gesetz...
- The Rothaeuser Grauwacke Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal...
- Almut Gross, Konkret Literatur 1997. (in German) Autonome in Bewegung, AG Grauwacke aus den ersten 23 Jahren, ****ociation A 2003. (in English) Galimberti...
- for years the site of protests and violence during May Day rallies. Grauwacke, AG, "We Will Disrupt this Conference: Resistance to the 1988 IMF and...
- (1893). Another work is Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna der Siegenschen Grauwacke (1892). Kayser Bjerg, a mountain in Greenland, was named after him. Kayser...
- pre-quaternary rocks c. 290 million years (Brocken granite) Rock type(s) Paleozoic sedimentary, metamorphic and magmatic rocksmainly slate, grauwacke, granite...
- steam explosion. All that remains, however, is a narrow ridge of slate, grauwacke and sandstone between the maar and the neighbouring Lieser valley. There...
- made of limestone, four hundred metres high, that stands atop base of grauwacke and primary rock (Urgestein - quartz phyllite). The Rettenstein is the...
- barrier itself is a 21 m high gravity dam. The bedrock consists mostly of grauwacke, but with some thinly laminated argillaceous shale as well. There is a...