Red Sandstone

Red sandstone may refer to:

  • Sandstone appearing red due to the inclusion of iron oxides (hematite)
  • Old Red Sandstone
  • New Red Sandstone
  • Ardjachie Stone
  • Aizkorri ("red stone"), Basque Mountains massif

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or sandstone:

    The remnant of Indians thereabout—all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by the Red Men for their native soil and natural rights—had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,—here they are, side by side, god and devil, mind and matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm, riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)