The country is now more level, and ironstone conglomerate forms low steep banks to the river, the bed of which is unchanged, being broad dry sandy channels.
In a few spots fragments of limestone and agate were strewed over the surface, and an occasional ridge of ironstone conglomerate was crossed on which the grass was indifferent.
The soil varied from a brown loam to ironstone gravel, and in a few spots ferruginous conglomerate was visible.
The summit had a thin horizontal bed of ironstone conglomerate through which masses of white sandstone protruded.
The name of ironstone remained to that class of pottery which is strong and resistive.
Coal, ironstone and clay are mined in close proximity, and every sort of iron and steel goods is produced.
The rocks were red sand and ironstone blended together.
A coarse kind of ironstone gravel was (if I may use the term) scattered over the face of the country; some of it had a glazed appearance on the surface, being hollow within, and about the size of a musket ball.
Our road lay in some places over tracts of loose white sand, and in others round and over low ironstone hills.
The splinters fly from an ironstone boulder not two yards distant, but Andries Botma does not move a muscle.
Higher and higher mounts the sun, more blistering and scorching his rays, giving forth from the ironstone of the kopje as though reflected from an oven.
They chose the site for the township on the left side of the river, where some high ironstone ridges come close in on the river bank.
They travelled by Bowen River and along the Cape River route, and took up the country about the junction of the Cloncurry and the Flinders Rivers, near some peculiar isolated ironstone hills, which were named Donor's Hills.
Under this proclamation Sir George became able to procure the clayband ironstone almost at his own price.
Some small fragments of similar clay ironstonehave been found on the traditional site of the Talladale iron furnace.
The path next passes through a narrow gully called Clais na Leac, where they say ironstone used to be quarried.
The lime in the clayband ironstone would render it a useful ingredient from its quality of acting as a flux.
The samples of clayband ironstone he finds to yield from 6 to 38 per cent.
From thence to the north-east they traversed stony plains, broken by sandstone and ironstone ridges, and intersected by the dry beds of sandy watercourses; and in this country, one of the worst possible misfortunes happened to them.
Even during the retreat to the Murchison the lives of the horses were only saved by the party accidentally finding a small native well in a most unexpected situation, namely, in the middle of a bare ironstone plain.
There were heaps of small pebbles also of ironstone and quartz on some of the flats we crossed.
She picked up a lump of ironstone and said, passionately, "I will defend myself.
She stood thus, with the lump of ironstone resting on the block, the full flood of moonlight upon her, blinding her eyes, but revealing her against a background of foliage, like a statue of alabaster.
Mehetabel drew aside, to a nodule of ironstone rock that capped the first elevation of the Common, the first stage of the terraces that rise to Hind Head.
His walk led him past the oblong cairn of ironstone boulders in the middle of the sandy patch of ground enclosed with zinc wire-netting.
Be done, that Will that left him desolate and laid her away, a still fair, fast-corrupting thing, under the red earth and the great ironstone boulders!
The ground was hard, with boulders of ironstone embedded in it.
I hope not,” said the doctor, gravely; then he began talking about different things, showing Nell the big boulders of ironstone which stood up among the tree growths like the ruins of some ancient castle.
Sussex was once famous for its ironwork, and ironstone is found in plenty near the surface of the ground in this district.
The brick-layers used to decorate the rather wide and uneven mortar joint with small pieces of black ironstone stuck into the mortar.
It was hard work carrying the cargo and canoe through the mosquito-stricken ironstone country, and we did not camp till midnight.
A long day's travel was made successfully, and by ten o'clock we were clear of the ironstone and slipping quietly along through a pleasant sandy country.
Lying back from the hollow in a lateral spur, shut in by ironstone cliffs, was a small kraal, and this place had been chosen by the Igazipuza for their last stand.
Ironstone gravel occurs in great quantity strewn over the surface of the basaltic table-lands, especially in the case of that between the Wainunu and the Yanawai rivers.
Should they see hills of ironstoneand diorite, or blows and outcrops of quartz, they will certainly revisit the locality.
Formed of a conglomerate of sandstone and round ironstone pebbles, they stood up like a wall on the top of a long slope of easy grade, covered with gravel and loose pebbles.
The hill is capped with a conglomerate of quartz, sandstone and ironstone pebbles, some of the quartz fragments being as large as hen's eggs and polished quite smooth.
The bottom is of rock, a sort of cement in whichironstone is visible in the middle, and of clay near the edges.
On the plain to the south are one or two small outcrops of ironstone and quartz, sticking up out of the sand, as if some hills other than sandstone had existed, and become buried by the all-spreading sand.
In the Lower Lias of Lincolnshire and the Middle Lias of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Yorkshire the beds of ironstone are of great value.
I found the magnetic polarity to be very distinct in some of the ironstone pebbles on these rises.
More recently, the discovery of vast stores of ironstone in the Cleveland Hills, closely adjoining Middlesborough, has tended still more rapidly to augment the population and increase the commercial importance of the place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ironstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: earthenware; ore; stone
