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Definition of Argillaceous rock
1. Noun. A sedimentary rock formed from clay deposits.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Argillaceous Rock
Literary usage of Argillaceous rock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of United States by Jabez S. Holmes (1877)
"Slate-rock" is a term universally used by geologists and practical quarrymen to
indicate an argillaceous rock, or a rock in which alumina or the silicate ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1790)
"... but in a bed of argillaceous rock, which is generally covered with a compact
... but they derive their origin from the argillaceous rock, and will rufh ..."
3. Australian Almanac (1867)
"This argillaceous rock of the Namoi appears in nearly all the ravines along the
... The argillaceous rock yields fine grinding stones at those places where, ..."
4. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1881)
"Red, pearly, argillaceous rock 7 0 3. Green argillaceous shale 2 0 4. ...
Red argillaceous rock, with large green blotches 15 6 11. Red and green, nodular, ..."
5. The Silurian, Devonian and Irvine Formations of East-central Kentucky by August Frederick Foerste (1906)
"West of the railroad station at Irvine, argillaceous rock occurs in the lower
six feet of the section. The lower part of the Black shale series is more ..."
6. Memoir of Douglass Houghton: First State Geologist of Michigan. With an by Alvah Bradish (1889)
"This argillaceous rock sometimes appears in the form of a slate, ... The material
of which this argillaceous rock is composed possesses an extreme degree of ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1873)
"an argillaceous rock just appearing above the river level at high water ; (2.
... a nodular argillaceous rock of a red and ochreous color, 15 feet; (4. ..."
8. The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by John Edward Marr (1898)
"Oftentimes, also, where the argillaceous rock is in close proximity to a harder
rock, such as massive grit, the argillaceous rock in close contiguity to the ..."
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