Resembling or containing clay.
1 It must also not be full of argillaceous and iron-oxide infillings.
2 The red sandstone is argillaceous , with compact white gypsum or alabaster, very beautiful.
3 Feld-spar is a compound of siliceous, argillaceous , and calcareous earth, intimately united together.
4 A whitish cherty limestone, with nodules of bluish argillaceous limestone.
5 The argillaceous , or clay rocks, including muds, clays, and shales.
6 The same streaky argillaceous sandstones prevailed as in Karague.
7 Mr. Prinsep says the two first were chiefly of sand, and the third somewhat argillaceous .
8 The damp argillaceous soil gave way under their feet.
9 Hence lake deposits are usually of an argillaceous nature.
10 Thus argillaceous soils may be divided into three varieties, viz.-clay ,clayloam, and argillaceous alluvial.
11 The hills are composed of an argillaceous schist.
12 Fossiliferous argillaceous limestone, containing traces of lead sulphide.
13 This is certain, that we have the coaly matter intimately mixed with argillaceous and with calcareous strata.
14 After the sands follow successively argillaceous , arable, and garden ground, then humus, which occupies the lowest rank.
15 Our road lay through a wood of olive trees, in a fertile uneven plain of red argillaceous soil.
16 Here is the same induration of sandstone by means of fusion, that in the argillaceous strata has produced jasper.
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