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English Dictionary: sandstone by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sandstone
n
  1. a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sandstone \Sand"stone`\, n.
      A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or
      siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
  
      Note: Different names are applied to the various kinds of
               sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic,
               argillaceous, micaceous, etc.
  
      {Flexible sandstone} (Min.), the finer-grained variety of
            itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the
            lamination is quite flexible.
  
      {Red sandstone}, a name given to two extensive series of
            British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one
            below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were
            formerly known as the Old and the New Red Sandstone
            respectively, and the former name is still retained for
            the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian
            age, but the term New Red Sandstone is now little used,
            some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the
            remained as Triassic. See the Chart of {Geology}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sandstone, MN (city, FIPS 58396)
      Location: 46.12517 N, 92.86459 W
      Population (1990): 2057 (538 housing units)
      Area: 11.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
   Sandstone, WV
      Zip code(s): 25985
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