Lexicographical Neighbors of Arkoses
Literary usage of Arkoses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse: Fiscal Year 1904-05 by Samuel Stinson Gannett (1905)
"The slates and arkoses of the Sunrise "series" form the mass of the Kenai Mountains
... The arkoses are composed chiefly of angular fragments of quartz and ..."
2. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1908)
"It is highly significant in this connection that the first sediments encountered
on the north side of the Blue Hill Range toward the west are arkoses ..."
3. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1907)
"The rocks are chiefly arkoses, which weather unequally and produce a light sandy
soil ... The strata consist of arkoses several hundred feet in thickness. ..."
4. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1905)
"From above downward we have : 500 feet of red and mottled marls and sandstones ;
590 feet of grey marl-slates and grey and white sandstones (arkoses), ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1912)
"There are some rocks, closely allied to the shales and arkoses, ... are in most
instances feldspathic and grade insensibly into typical arkoses. ..."
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