siliceous

[US]/sɪ'lɪʃəs/
[UK]/sɪ'lɪʃəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. containing or relating to silica or silicate minerals

Phrases & Collocations

siliceous rock

siliceous earth

Example Sentences

The host rock conformably overlies a band of siliceous chertybrecia.

The main kinds of rocks include carbonate rocks, tuffite, siliceous rocks and quartz sand-stone.

The deposit occurs in the carbargillite-siliceous rock and ferroan carbonate rock of the Sinian-Cambrian system on the border of the Douling doming paleostructure in South Qinling.

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