Novaculite

Word NOVACULITE
Character 10
Hyphenation no vac u lite
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Definitions and meanings of "Novaculite"

What do we mean by novaculite?

A very hard, dense, even-textured, silica-bearing sedimentary rock used in whetstones. noun

A very hard, fine-grained rock, used for hones: same as honestone. It is a very silicious variety of clay slate.

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate. noun

A form of chert, very rich in quartz, that has been used to make whetstones noun

A variety of chert, very rich in quartz, that has been used to make whetstones

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The word "novaculite" in example sentences

_whetstones_ are produced largely from a rock called "novaculite" in ❋ Unknown (1915)

The Central Mountain Ranges are dominated by east-west trending ridges that are characteristically steep and rugged and underlain by resistant sandstone and novaculite (chert). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sharp, folded and faulted ridges of the Ouachita Mountains (36) are mostly covered in pine – upland hardwood forest and underlain by Paleozoic sandstone, shale, and novaculite (chert). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Ouachitas are made up of ridges, hills, and valleys formed by the erosion of folded and faulted Paleozoic sandstone, shale, and chert, known locally as novaculite. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Arkansas, Ecoregion 36e is confined to Round Mountain in western Polk County, where it is underlain by sandstone and shale; novaculite (chert) is absent in contrast to the Central Mountain Ranges (36b). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ecoregion 36c is underlain by folded and faulted sandstone, shale, and novaculite (chert); the lithologic mosaic is distinct from the Athens Plateau (36a). ❋ Unknown (2008)

These slates constitute a notable feature in the geology of the State, and, in addition to the interest which attaches to the numerous mines along its north-western border, they contain extensive beds of roofing-slates and turkey hones, (novaculite.) ❋ North Carolina Land Co. (1869)

a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon ❋ Unknown (2010)

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