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arenaceous

1. adj. [Geology]

Describing sandy-textured rock or sediment. Arenaceous does not necessarily imply silica-rich, but rather particles of sand size, 0.625 to 2 mm, according to the Udden-Wentworth scale.

See related terms: rocksandsedimentsilica