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gritstone

NOUN
  1. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

How To Use gritstone In A Sentence

  • At present Lafarge is due to cease operation at the site in two years, but it is asking for additional time to extract the 1.5 million tonnes of unworked gritstone reserves.
  • What we didn't expect was to find the thing perched on a weather-sculpted and bus-sized block of gritstone.
  • We passed the Flying Dutchman, chugged up the lane out of town and on to a bridleway, a nice route of beech and oak and large mossy boulders of gritstone.
  • The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur.
  • They were to be created from local limestone, sandstone and gritstone and each cairn was to feature a spiral design of dry stone walls emanating outwards.
  • Five years ago, he formed a company to buy the complex of gritstone buildings dating from 1790.
  • There is a condition restricting the output of gritstone from the Old Hutton quarry each day to 400 tonnes.
  • One or two gritstone quarries provide important nesting sites for peregrines and ravens.
  • The immediate terrain is straightforward - large sheep pastures with gritstone walls.
  • The greyish green gritstone had undergone the action of deep-seated reducing heat fluid during its rock-forming process.
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