What's the difference between gritstone and sandstone?
Gritstone
Definition:
(n.) See Grit, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stanage, the largest of the gritstone edges, north of Hathersage.
(2) Back in the Peak District, Katy Whittaker's housemate, Mina Leslie-Wujastyk, aged 26, has also recently climbed E8, again on the gritstone edges that dominate the moors above Sheffield.
Sandstone
Definition:
(n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
(2) Pueblo Bonita, constructed from artfully stacked sandstone blocks between AD900 and 1100, was once the centre of culture and commerce for the ancient Puebloan people .
(3) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
(4) This is probably explained by the intensity of exposure and the particular kind of sandstone being worked.
(5) Inside the cottages – which sleep four, five and six people – oak beams and sandstone walls are offset by 21st-century comforts such as satellite TV, DVD players and dishwashers.
(6) The light sandstone Union Buildings , at 99 a year younger than the ANC, are a visual metaphor for the republic's rich and sometimes jarring contradictions.
(7) The prevalence of silicosis in these open-cast sandstone quarriers is unexpectedly high.
(8) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(9) The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for lung cancer was 200 (44 observed, 22.0 expected) for all skilled stone workers, 808 (7 observed, 0.9 expected) for skilled sandstone cutters in Copenhagen, 119 (8 observed, 6.5 expected) for skilled granite cutters in Bornholm, 181 (24 observed, 13.2 expected) for all unskilled stone workers, 246 (17 observed, 6.9 expected) for unskilled workers in the road and building material industry, and 111 (7 observed, 6.3 expected) for unskilled workers in the stonecutting industry.
(10) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
(11) The iron-oxides (superfine hematite) are eroded from the Peron Sandstone exposed in some coastal cliffs and constitute up to 2% of substrate sediments near these cliffs.
(12) Many of the grindstones used in Nigerian homes are quarried from sandstone in a small group of villages near Kano in the extreme north of the country.
(13) It's nonsense: Brown at best is some sort of decayed shale, shattered rubble containing the odd fossil and Cameron a rather smart golden sandstone.
(14) It comes from the new locality of Xirochori in the red sandstone of the Nea Messimbria formation.
(15) Monument Valley is named for the dozens of free-standing sandstone buttes and monoliths that tower above the sweeping sagebrush landscape.
(16) For water-wet Berea Sandstone a flood front was readily observed, but some of the oil was apparently left behind in small, isolated pockets which were larger than individual pores.
(17) Mahendraparvata was never really "lost" – the mountain has long been known as the location of the sandstone quarries that built Angkor's cities, as well as the source of water for a complex system that irrigated the vast empire.
(18) From these offices, on the lower ground floor of a Victorian sandstone building in central Glasgow, campaigners with Yes Scotland are preparing to unleash a torrent of billboard adverts, celebrity endorsements, star-studded campaign rallies, street stalls and pop-up shops selling independence for Scotland .
(19) Carved into the sandstone bedrock of north-eastern Arizona, near Chinle, the three spectacular canyons, De Chelly, Del Muerto, and Monument, lie at the centre of the Navajo Nation and at the heart of many native legends.
(20) Experimental NMR imaging measurements of two-phase displacement were conducted in several limestones and sandstones representing various different types of pore structures, including a macroscopically homogeneous structure, a laminated structure, and a sample that exhibits porosity at different scales.