silicaceous

This one is an S - what they call "stony" or "silicaceous" - but it's not any better looking than the first one.

Night Light 2009

The flora of the area is a low-arctic type, typical of the nutrient-poor silicaceous soil which, where humid, shows solifluction effects such as frost boils.

Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

So far, the oldest sediments that have been collected from the Arctic Ocean floor are eighty million-year-old black muds, and sixty-seven million-year-old silicaceous oozes.

Arctic Ocean 2008

Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite.

Nobel, Alfred Bernhard 2007

Does this increase the number of silicaceous diatoms which can outcompete the calciferous types, thereby reducing the biological pull-down?

Unthreaded #10 « Climate Audit 2007

Or do those silicaceous growths on their dorsal sides break off and shatter inside a predator's mouth?

Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

Or do those silicaceous growths on their dorsal sides break off and shatter inside a predator's mouth?

Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

What it's firing at its prey is a stream of water under extremely high pressure that con'tains a high proportion of sharp-edged silicaceous aggre-gate.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997