Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sand or sediment having a dark greenish color caused by the presence of glauconite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sandstone containing grains of glauconite, which impart to it a greenish hue.
- noun In geological classification, one of certain subdivisions of the Cretaceous system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
greenish sandstone containingglauconite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite
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Examples
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Another soil enhancer we use at Arrows is called greensand, which is a mineral additive that provides potassium tomatoes and peppers are heavy potassium feeders and improves drainage.
THE ARROWS COOKBOOK Clark Frasier 2003
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Westbury, there is good iron-ore in the greensand, which is being smelted now, as it used to be in the Weald of Surrey and Kent ages since.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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These developed in old deposits of greenish clay containing greensand.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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They had reached the edge of a memorial garden, and An'desha paused long enough to take some of the greensand in season, flowers-that were always left there for visitors to place upon graves.
Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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They had reached the edge of a memorial garden, and An'desha paused long enough to take some of the greensand in season, flowers-that were always left there for visitors to place upon graves.
Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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It has since been given to phosphatic concretions found chiefly in the greensand in Suffolk and
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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The variety of their strata make the cliffs interesting to geologists, for here are found layers of different kinds of chalk, limestone, greensand, marls, chert, and interspersed lines of flints.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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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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That it is by them is shown by the stone used, which is greensand and not the Caen stone of later-Norman workmen, and by differences in working.
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Other natural rock sources like Jersey greensand have long been used in the eastern United States on some unusual potassium-deficient soils.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon
knitandpurl commented on the word greensand
"The London Loop by David Sharp continued the process of opening up the suburbs, linking patches of woodland, riverside paths, tracks across chalk and greensand."
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair, p 83 of the Penguin paperback edition
January 26, 2012