Greensand is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GREENSAND in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a kind of sandstone consisting largely of grains of quartz and glauconite
• a greenish kind of sandstone, often loosely consolidated.
• a stratum largely composed of greensand, deposited during the Cretaceous period and often underlying chalk
• olive-green sandstone consisting mainly of quartz and glauconite
• A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
• an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a sedimentary deposit that consists largely of dark greenish grains of glauconite often mingled with clay or sand

Words related to GREENSAND

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Words that contain GREENSAND

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How to use GREENSAND in a sentence

• Carpenter, that the red clay is the result of the decomposition of previously-formed greensand.
• This is called commonly the lower Greensand, though it is not green, but rich iron-red.
• This bed of phosphates was found everywhere in the Greensand, underlying the Chalk.
• Prodigious to think that that shallow Greensand shore, strewed with dead animals, should sink to the bottom of an ocean, perhaps a mile, perhaps some four miles deep.
• The first bed which you will generally find upon the water-worn surface of the chalk is a layer of green-sand and green-coated flints.
• There are, however, many beds of marl, greensand, gypsum, limestone, saline and vegetable deposits available for the improvement of farming lands, in the Union.

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