Argillaceous

Word ARGILLACEOUS
Character 12
Hyphenation ar gil la ceous
Pronunciations /ɑːdʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Argillaceous"

What do we mean by argillaceous?

Containing, made of, or resembling clay; clayey. adjective

Of the nature of or resembling clay.

Containing a considerable amount of clayey matter: as, argillaceous earth.

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. adjective

A sandstone containing much clay. adjective

The clay ironstone. adjective

See Argillite. adjective

Pertaining to clay; made of, containing, or resembling clay adjective

Resembling or containing clay adjective

Pertaining to clay; made of, containing, or resembling clay

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Synonyms and Antonyms for Argillaceous

The word "argillaceous" in example sentences

Hydraulic limestones, sometimes referred to as argillaceous limestones have a high proportion of clay and silicia (15-20 %) and can be either high calcium or magnesian. ❋ Unknown (1985)

These siliceous sand-rocks are either held together by a siliceous cement, or have a greater or less portion of clay in them, which in some acts as a cement to the siliceous crystals, but in others is in such great abundance that in burning them they become an imperfect porcelain and are then used to repair the roads, as at Chesterfield in Derbyshire; these are called argillaceous grit by Mr. Kirwan. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Besides metallic bolts, wooden slot-and-wedge anchors were applied in the U.S.A. mainly in places with soft hanging such as argillaceous and quarzitic shalestone. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Geologically, the island consists of gneiss and argillaceous schists, with no trace of fossils, showing that the island is, like the Falkland Islands, a surviving fragment of some greater land-mass now vanished, most probably indicating a former extension of the Andean system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Purcell – Cabinet – North Bitterroot Mountains ecoregion is mantled by volcanic ash and glacial deposits and is underlain by quartzite and argillaceous rocks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The surface geology of this ecoregion consists mostly of extremely rugged limestone mountains, with an additional section of argillaceous sedimentary rock on Biak. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mineralogically, these oil shales are marls or argillaceous limestones, which may be associated with volcanic tuffs and evaporites. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Mr. Waterhouse only saw Chambers Pillar from a distance, but he had an opportunity of examining a smaller hill of the same character, and found it to be composed of a soft loose argillaceous rock, at the top of which was a thin stratum of a hard siliceous rock, much broken up. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The geological formation of the country we had passed through, consisted in the higher ranges of an argillaceous rock, of quartz, or of ironstone. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the lower or front hills the rock was argillaceous, of a hard slaty nature, and inclined at an angle of about 45 degrees from the horizontal. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The slopes of Flinders range are steep and precipitous to the westward, and composed principally of an argillaceous stone or grey quartz, very hard and ringing like metal when struck with a hammer. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This change in the vegetation marks the commencement of the grand calcareo-argillaceous deposit, which forms the wide extent of the Pampas, and covers the granitic rocks of Banda Oriental. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Here we had hit upon the Negros,25 or coloured quartzose formations of Mexico, in which silver appears as a sulphure; and we may expect to find the Colorado, or argillaceous, that produces the noble metal in the forms of chlorure, bromure, and iodure. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They burdened this earth a thousand ages before man appeared, but their fossil remains, found in the argillaceous limestone called by the English the lias, have enabled their colossal structure to be perfectly built up again and anatomically ascertained. ❋ Unknown (2003)

To this the American Review replied that the soil of Florida, although not equally rich, afforded the best conditions for the moulding and casting of the Columbiad, consisting as it did of sand and argillaceous earth. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A few gaunt willows creep timorously down its sandy sides; at the very bottom, which is dry and yellow as copper, lie huge slabs of argillaceous rock. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The soil of this vast depression is entirely argillaceous, and therefore impermeable, so that the waters remain there and make of it a region very difficult to cross during the hot season. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The damp argillaceous soil gave way under their feet. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But there is no evidence of soap having been used by the Egyptians; and if by accident they discovered something of the kind, while engaged with mixtures of natron or potash, and other ingredients, it is probable that it was only an absorbent, without oil or grease, and on a par with steatite, or the argillaceous earths, with which, no doubt, they were long acquainted. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Bob: "I'm interested in [coprolites] and argillaceous [minerals]." Steve: "Are you ready to [inspect] each sphincter of a dinosaur?" ❋ Burt Milhorse Eriksson (2021)

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