"siltstone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: siltstones [plural]
Etymology: From silt + stone. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|silt|stone}} silt + stone Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} siltstone (countable and uncountable, plural siltstones)
  1. A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone. Wikipedia link: siltstone Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Rocks Derived forms: metasiltstone Translations (type of rock): siltsteen (Dutch), silttikivi (Finnish), siltite (Italian), siltstein [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), siltstein [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)

Inflected forms

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