greensand in English
noun
1
a greenish kind of sandstone, often loosely consolidated.
The sample was taken from a thin limestone lens with phosphatic oolites within the phosphatic greensand .
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1. Coal dust is an additive used in greensand (clay bonded moulding sand).
2. Next to the thin chalk downs in Wiltshire lies the Vale of Pewsey with its superb deep greensand.