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What does arenaceous mean?

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  1. (of soil) Sandy.
  2. (of a plant) Growing in sandy soil.
  3. (geology) Arenitic.
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But there are other reasons for the comparative paucity of fossils in arenaceous strata, as we shall see presently.
Massart speaks of it as occurring in the Algerian Sahara as a typical arenaceous plant.
In the Stretton Hills and on the Long Mynd there is a sequence of largely arenaceous beds, the Longmyndian Supergroup, whose age is unknown.
There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.
The metaconglomerates comprise monocrystalline or polycrystalline angular or subrounded clasts of quartz embedded in an arenaceous matrix.
Most of this arenaceous succession displays abundant trough and tabular cross-bedding.

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