Associations to the word «Siltstone»

Wiktionary

SILTSTONE, noun. A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.

Dictionary definition

SILTSTONE, noun. A fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope