The lower beds were here more jaspery than usual, and they included some white chertystrata and red sandstones, alternating with purple claystone porphyry.
A whitish cherty limestone, with nodules of bluish argillaceous limestone.
The lower is the cross-bedded sandstone, and the upper the cherty limestone.
The topmost is the cherty limestone, the layers of which lead the eye to the crossbedded sandstone, a creamy buff in color, and composed of a soft, sugary sand.
Then it winds its way down and around the cherty limestone, to the top of the cross-bedded sandstone, down which zigzags and steps lead one to the spring itself.
As the uplift continues, the cherty limestone and possibly the cross-bedded sandstone are both cut through, as the plateau slowly emerges.
From here it is interesting to look up to the rim and observe the peculiar and varied contour of the many pinnacles cut by wind and storm out of the cherty limestone.
First there is the band of cherty limestone, from which a sloped talus leads to the creamy sugary sandstone.
It is much altered in structure, but seems to have been formed from a cherty nodule “apparently selected from the supracretaceous gravel so abundant between Torquay and Newton.
In several European museums are preserved thin, flat, leaf-shaped knives ofcherty flint found in Egypt, some of which will be mentioned in subsequent pages.
Mr. Pengelly’s list) is of greycherty flint, carefully chipped on both faces, one of which is rather more convex than the other.
The arenacious and cherty varieties frequently occur in the same bed; sometimes they form distinct beds.
The splendid crag of the White Cliff towers above the sea, showing the slanting beds of the cherty matter below the dazzling white of the chalk, and from their inclination giving to the whole cliff an appearance of lurching into the waves.
But this was no more than the odours given out by the violent attrition of the cherty sandstone and chalk grinding against each other as they descended.
Descending into a valley with a dry creek fifteen yards wide, the rocks on the south-east slope cherty limestone alternating with thin beds of shale, the strata dipping 20 degrees to 30 degrees west.
Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back.
Half of a cherty water-worn boulder from which flakes for flints have been chipped.
Small round cherty boulders, frequently used in chipping for flints, but in this instance they seem to have been used as hammers.
Few large trees were seen on these eminences, which were often bare, with a hard cherty footing, replaced sometimes by clusters of brambles and thickets.
Inland of these, the ordinary pale carboniferous sandstone and cherty limestone re-appeared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cherty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
