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What does arenaceous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word arenaceous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of soil) Sandy.
  2. (of a plant) Growing in sandy soil.
  3. (geology) Arenitic.
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The arenaceous lamin are much hardened at the point of contact, and the clays are converted into siliceous schist.
But there are other reasons for the comparative paucity of fossils in arenaceous strata, as we shall see presently.
The formation at and in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne, is of tertiary deposits associated with arenaceous older rocks.
In the forest area in Simian Mountain, there are quite a number of streams, waterfalls, lakes and arenaceous red rock topographic features.
There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.
Most of this arenaceous succession displays abundant trough and tabular cross-bedding.

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