New Red Sandstone

In the plateau of New Red Sandstone called El – Hismá, ruins and inscriptions are said to be found at the Jebel Rawiyán, whose

The Land of Midian 2003

Going south along the dorsum, we found remains of oval foundations; a trench apparently cut in the rock, pottery often an inch and more thick, and broken handmills made of the New Red Sandstone of the Hismá.

The Land of Midian 2003

The _New Red Sandstone_ forms the base of the great central plains of England, and is surmounted by the oliferous marls and red arenaceous beds which pass under the succession of great oolitic terraces that stretch across England from the coasts of Dorsetshire to the north-eastern coast of Yorkshire.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

In the next formation, the New Red Sandstone, reptiles make their appearance.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

Somersetshire, where the overlying beds of the New Red Sandstone are horizontal.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

The carboniferous rocks before alluded to as horizontal on the borders of Wales are vertical in the Mendip hills in Somersetshire, where the overlying beds of the New Red Sandstone are horizontal.

II. Uniformity Of Change 1909

Close to Birkenhead were some excellent bits of scenery, old and picturesque farmhouses, overshadowed with venerable oaks, with juttings-out of the New Red Sandstone rocks, covered with heather, furze, and broom, with pools of water edged with all manner of effective water plants.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

Then, below the clay lay a bed of New Red Sandstone rock, which yielded a solid foundation for any superstructure, however lofty or ponderous.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

Mr. Hull, in a valuable paper "On the New Red Sandstone and Permian Formations, as Sources of Water-supply for Towns," [10] has noticed the extremely porous and absorbent nature of the New Red Sandstone.

The Coal Question~ Of the Cost of Coal Mining William Stanley Jevons 1865

Now, when it becomes necessary to sink, not only through the Magnesian Limestone, but through the New Red Sandstone, in order to reach new supplies of coal, may not the water be found overpowering?

The Coal Question~ Of the Cost of Coal Mining William Stanley Jevons 1865