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Definition of Roestones
1. roestone [n] - See also: roestone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roestones
Literary usage of Roestones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1822)
"... between the slaty sandstone with roestones (bunte sandstein, Wern.) and the
conglomerate or ancient sandstone. ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1818)
"... sandstone with roestones (bunte sandstein, Wern.), and the conglomerate or
ancient sandstone. ..."
3. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1907)
"... or roestones, 1.9 to 2.5 " .. 2.2 Oxygen Gas, a little more than l part heavier
thaii air .00136 Petroleum .878 Peat, dry, unpressed Pine, white, ..."
4. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1919)
"Oil*, whale; olive " jn 57.3 red. black. Ac« » »to« ' of turpentine *' .87 54 J
Oolite, or roestones, 1.9 lo 2.5 " .. 1.1 137. ..."
5. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1852)
"... between the slaty sandstone with roestones (bunte sandstein, Wern.), and the
conglomerate or ancient sandstone. ..."
6. Outlines of an Attempt to Establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on by William Martin (1809)
"The smaller grained roestones, as those found in Rutlandshire (at Ketton) Essex,
Northamptonshire, &c. frequently contain, and also constitute, ..."
7. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society by Howard R. Oliver (1848)
"... roestones, and crystalline limestones, is a question that I am unable fully
to answer. Analogous phenomena, however, exist elsewhere, which shew that an ..."
8. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1872)
"... between the slaty sandstone with roestones (bunte Sandstein, Wern,), and the
conglomerate or ancient sandstone. ..."
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