Definition of Psammites. Meaning of Psammites. Synonyms of Psammites

- The Sand Reckoner (Gr****: Ψαμμίτης, Psammites) is a work by Archimedes, an Ancient Gr**** mathematician of the 3rd century BC, in which he set out to determine...
- Psammite (Gr****: psammitēs "(made) from sand", from psammos "sand") is a general term for sandstone. It is equivalent to the Latin-derived term arenite...
- In places, the paragneisses include clinopyroxene-hornblende-bearing psammites, garnet (grossular)-diopside marbles, and biotite-graphite phyllites....
- .) and less than ⁠22/7⁠ (3.1428...). In this treatise, also known as Psammites, Archimedes finds a number that is greater than the grains of sand needed...
- their composition. This ranges from low-mica psammite through semipelite to high-mica pelite. Psammites composed mostly of quartz are classified as quartzite...
- and psammites. The lithology of this subgroup varies across Scotland but is dominantly limestone though this is replaced in the east by psammite and quartzite...
- rocks of the Moine succession much of which is metamorphosed sandstones (psammites) and schist. These have over-ridden the gneiss and the Cambrian and Ordovician...
- years is suggested by the British Geological Survey. They are largely psammites and semipelites which have been intensely deformed and which are generally...
- Co**** gravel(ly) psephite (psephitic) rudite (rudaceous) Medium sand(y) psammite (psammitic) arenite (arenaceous) Fine clay(ey) pelite (pelitic) lutite...
- the southwestern end of its outcrop the Group consists of widespread psammites within which are identified a lower Kinlocheil Quartzite Formation which...