siltstone

English

Etymology

From silt +‎ stone.

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.

Derived terms

• metasiltstone

Translations

type of rock

• Dutch: siltsteen
• Finnish: silttikivi
• Italian: siltite
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: siltstein m

  Nynorsk: siltstein m