A sandstone containing quartz, feldspar, and rock fragments in a clay matrix.
a rock similar to sandstone but with a significant content of mud/silt; graywackes exhibits poor sorting and bedding, characteristic of minor water action
A dark gray, consolidated, coarse-grained sandstone consisting of poorly sorted angular to subangular grains of quartz, feldspar, and dark rock and mineral fragments embedded in a matrix of compact clay.
A dark-gray, coarse-grained, poorly-sorted sandstone.
Sandstone composed of poorly sorted angular clasts.
rock composed of angular grains of quartz, feldspars and various rocks enclosed in a weakly metamorphosed argillaceous matrix. Metagraywacke: metamorphosed graywacke.
a sedimentary rock, a coarse sandstone or fine conglomerate consisting of rounded fragments of rocks and minerals bound in a fine-grained matrix. [AHDOS