gritstone

Also known as grit sandstone

300px|thumb|right|The Salt Cellar, a gritstone Tor (rock formation)|tor on [[Derwent Edge in the Peak District, England]]

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300px|thumb|right|The Salt Cellar, a gritstone Tor (rock formation)|tor on [[Derwent Edge in the Peak District, England]]

Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for paper and for grindstones to sharpen blades. "Grit" is often applied to sandstones composed of angular sand grains. It may commonly contain small pebbles.