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- increasing metamorphism, greywackes frequently p**** into mica-schists, chloritic schists and sedimentary gneisses. The term "greywacke" can be confusing, since...
- Central Eastern Alps. The lithologies of the greywacke zone are: Paleozoic turbidites (among them greywackes) and limestones of Ordovician to Devonian age;...
- 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...
- marginal and shallow sea. This has meant that slates, sandstones and greywackes are the most abundant rock types in the Sauerland. In some areas limestones...
- limestone. Other arenites include sandstones, arkoses, greensands, and greywackes. Arenites mainly form by erosion of other rocks or turbiditic re-deposition...
- 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...
- characteristic shape of ribs of hard greywacke with narrow gaps where mudstone was worn away, and fragments of greywacke lay on the surface as a talus deposit...
- western extent of the ****emblage. The Franciscan Complex is dominated by greywacke sandstones, shales and conglomerates which have experienced low-grade...
- on the limestone platform at Norber near Settle." Many of the Silurian greywacke boulders at the site are perched on pedestals of limestone up to 30cm...
- Torthorwald in the south. Consisting of m****ive grits, sometimes conglomeratic, greywackes, flags and shales, these beds are repeated by innumerable folds frequently...