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What does greywacke mean?

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  1. (geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
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This comprises large olistoliths of greywacke sandstone, with interbedded mudstone and siltstone.
Ghanem et al. referred to the Hammamat Group as molasse-type sediments that consist of polymictic conglomerate, arkose, greywacke, siltstone and minor mudstone.
Some varieties include feldspathic greywacke, which is rich in feldspar, and lithic greywacke, which is rich in tiny rock fragments.
This Ordovician rock is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with greywacke sandstone.
The group includes melange which consists of greywacke, limestone, pillow lava, gabbro and serpentenite blocks in a black shale matrix.
The majority of the rocks are weakly metamorphosed coarse greywacke.

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