iron-stone

Each has its upright walls, inland of rich oak-wood, nearer the sea of dark green furze, then of smooth turf, then of weird black cliffs which range out right and left far into the deep sea, in castles, spires, and wings of jagged iron-stone.

Westward Ho! 2007

As those bounds dissolved in the iron-stone rock, Kharl drew back his order-probe and flung shields around himself and those just behind him, hoping that his party was all there.

Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

We had a very bad stony road to-day, consisting principally of quartz and iron-stone, of which the ranges had latterly been entirely composed.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

During the day our route had still been over the same character of country as before, with this exception, that it was more stony and barren, with breccia or iron-stone grit covering the surface.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

In the upper part these elevations appeared red from the red sandy soil, gravel, or iron-stone grit which were generally found upon their summits.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

The steep banks which inclose the valleys, through which the streams take their course, and which until lately we had found of an oolitic limestone, now exhibited granite, quartz, sandstone or iron-stone.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

On the hills many specimens of agate, iron-stone, and jasper were procured, also some flint; the low stones of the river produced the same: abundance of fine freestone was every where seen.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

Mount Exmouth seems principally composed of iron-stone; and some of the richest ore I had yet seen was found upon it.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

That surface consisted of clay iron-stone, denuded by torrents, and the

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

After making but a short stage, over iron-stone ridges, covered with stringy-bark, and loamy flat, producing MELALEUCAS, and

Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York 2003