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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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In the forest area in Simian Mountain, there are quite a number of streams, waterfalls, lakes and arenaceous red rock topographic features.
The formation at and in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne, is of tertiary deposits associated with arenaceous older rocks.
In the Stretton Hills and on the Long Mynd there is a sequence of largely arenaceous beds, the Longmyndian Supergroup, whose age is unknown.
But there are other reasons for the comparative paucity of fossils in arenaceous strata, as we shall see presently.
The metaconglomerates comprise monocrystalline or polycrystalline angular or subrounded clasts of quartz embedded in an arenaceous matrix.
The first are irregular and arenaceous masses, which pile themselves upon plants and solid bodies immerged in fresh water.

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