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Examples of gritstone
gritstone
The pub has a view of the Embsay Crag and it loomed, all bold dark gritstone.
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There are a handful of disused gritstone quarries on the southern slope of the hill.
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Hersey learned to climb on the gritstone of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire.
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Non-friable sandstone can be used to make grindstones for grinding grain, e.g., gritstone.
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There are also strata of shale and gritstone that surface on the fell.
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The Roaches are outcrops of gritstone, a coarse-grained sandstone popular with rock climbers.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet they are purely the work of time and weather fracturing and scouring beds of gritstone.
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Small seams of coal have been located in Mellor, over the gritstone.
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The gritstone comes from deposits laid down about 300 million years ago over the limestone.
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- Grit: a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
- Gritstone is a sedimentary rock composed of coarse, often angular sand grains. It may commonly contain small pebbles.
- A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser
- N. a rough and rounded rock found throughout northern England. Requires a refined technique (due to lack of holds) or thuggery (due to jamming cracks).
