SANDSTONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandstone mean? 

• SANDSTONE (noun)
  The noun SANDSTONE has 1 sense:

1. a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

  Familiarity information: SANDSTONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDSTONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sandstone" is a kind of...):

arenaceous rock (a sedimentary rock composed of sand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandstone"):

firestone (a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns)

holystone (a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship)

grit; gritrock; gritstone (a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone)

brownstone (a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings)

bluestone (bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building)

greensand (an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite)

siltstone (a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt)

 Context examples 

Researchers plan to use the rover to collect and analyze a drilled sample of Stimson unit sandstone this month.

(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)

Before Curiosity began further investigating the high-silica area, it was busy scrutinizing the geological contact zone near Marias Pass, where a pale mudstone meets darker sandstone.

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

The Martian buttes and mesas rising above the surface are eroded remnants of ancient sandstone that originated when winds deposited sand after lower Mount Sharp had formed.

(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)

The specimen, a piece of amber, was found in a sandstone deposit by fossil hunters who contacted scientists in 2016, and later donated it to the Dexu Institute of Paleontology in Chaozhou, China, where scientists were able to examine it closely.

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock.

(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)

A team of researchers from China, Canada, the United States, and Australia published on Wednesday their discovery of an early fossilized baby snake, reportedly the oldest ever found, in a piece of amber in the middle of a sandstone deposit in Myanmar.

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)

This sandstone outcrop — part of a geological layer that Curiosity's science team calls the Stimson unit — has a structure called crossbedding on a large scale that the team has interpreted as deposits of sand dunes formed by wind.

(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)