Sandstone

Can you tell the difference between granite and sandstone?

Sandstone is a kind of sedimentary rock.

In the evening light, the sandstone façade of the Romanesque basilica lit up with an unexpected splendour of colours.

A tall, slim girl, half-past sixteen, with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.

A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.

The name of the Algerian town Tipaza comes from tafza, red sandstone.

We have sandstone in the bathroom, and parquetry in the bedroom.

A hundred and fifty feet from this pueblo is a large upright block of sandstone, which is said to be used as a datum point in the observations of the sun made by a priest of Zuñi for the regulation of the time for planting and harvesting, for determining the new year, and for fixing the dates of certain other ceremonial observances.

Tucked under a sandstone overhang, Balcony House offers visitors a magnificent view of the surrounding countryside.

After millions of years the sand turned into sandstone. With more time and pressure the sandstone was then squished and cooked into quartzite.