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Metagraywacke vs Greywacke - What's the difference?

metagraywacke | greywacke | Derived terms |

Greywacke is a derived term of metagraywacke.


Metagraywacke is likely misspelled.


Metagraywacke has no English definition.

As a noun greywacke is

a hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

metagraywacke

Not English

Metagraywacke has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'metagraywacke':

methacrylate, mitokorezeme, methyacrylate, methysergide, motukoreaite, metacercariae

greywacke

English

(wikipedia greywacke)

Alternative forms

* graywacke

Noun

  • (geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 177:
  • *:Endless bleak, rounded hills composed of shales and ribs of tough ‘greywackes ’ make up the Southern Uplands – all of such rocks were originally deposited under marine conditions.

    • Derived terms

    * metagreywacke, metagraywacke