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Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated
metamorphic rock that was
originally pure
quartz sandstone.
Sandstone is
converted into
quartzite through heating and...
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Sandstone is a
clastic sedimentary rock
composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm)
silicate grains,
cemented together by
another mineral. Sandstones...
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pinkish quartzite and
quartzitic conglomerate of the Gog
Group onto the top of a
valley glacier. This m**** of
quartzite and
quartzitic conglomerate was carried...
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Maracanas (BR-020) (English: Hole of the Macaws) is one of the
largest quartzitic caves located in the
State of Goiás, Brazil. It is
located about 120 kilometres...
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Andean and
Alpine standards, they
remain steep and
rugged due to
their quartzitic sandstone geology (see below)
making them very
resistant to weathering...
- John; Anfinogenova, Yana (September 2015). "Origin of John's Stone: A
quartzitic boulder from the site of the 1908
Tunguska (Siberia) explosion". Icarus...
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often used as
shear sense indicators. They
commonly occur in
micaceous quartzitic mylonites. They
characteristically lie with
their longest dimension at...
- this landslide,
millions of
tonnes of
beige to
pinkish quartzite and
quartzitic conglomerate slid from the side of a
mountain and onto the top of a valley...
- in
southern Brazil and
northern Uruguay. The
formation is
composed of
quartzitic sandstones,
deposited in an
eolian environment.
Fossil theropod tracks...
- uppermost, and
younger of the two layers,
consists of
extremely hard
quartzitic sandstone,
commonly referred to as "Table
Mountain Sandstone" (TMS), or...
