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- Greywacke or graywacke (German: Grauwacke 'a grey, earthy rock') is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness (6–7 on Mohs scale)...
- a distinctive type of glacial erratic that consists of dark siliceous greywacke and exhibits prominent rounded, often deep, hemispherical voids and pits...
- The greywacke zone is a band of Paleozoic metamorphosed sedimentary rocks that forms an east-west band through the Austrian Alps. The greywacke zone crops...
- goddess standing, greywacke, in Boston Mus. 09.200. Nome triad, King, Hathor-Mistress-of-the-Sycomore and Theban nome-god standing, greywacke. (Now in Cairo...
- Green Caesar is a portrait of Gaius Julius Caesar made of green egyptian greywacke, kept in the Antikensammlung Berlin, which was likely made in the first...
- mine in this region. The Wadi Hammamat was a notable source of granite, greywacke, and gold. Flint was the first mineral collected and used to make tools...
- Crossgates Quarry2 Ribblehead Quarry2 Sandsend Ness4 Scotgate Ash Quarry1 Threshfield Quarry2 Notes 1: Sandstone 2: Limestone or chalk 3: Greywacke 4: Alum...
- and tawa, and was a home for birds such as kererū, tūī, kākā and kiwi. Greywacke from the ranges was a source for many stone tools used by Hauraki Māori...
- The Boston Green Head is a greywacke sculptured head of an Egyptian priest from the Late Period of ancient Egypt. The head is dated to 380–332 BC and...
- Rakaia, Aspiring and Pahau terranes and the Esk Head Belt. Greywacke (or Torlesse Greywacke) is the dominant rock type of the composite terrane; argillite...