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Silicon dioxide, also
known as silica, is an
oxide of
silicon with the
chemical formula SiO2,
commonly found in
nature as quartz. In many
parts of the...
- A
ganister (or
sometimes gannister ) is hard, fine-grained
quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite, used in the
manufacture of
silica brick typically used...
- (541 to 485 Ma) in
Malaysia is the
Machinchang Formation,
composed of
quartzose clastic rock formations, in Langkawi; the
other known example, the Jerai...
- epidote-quartz schist, biotite-calcite-quartz schist, and thin
layers of
quartzose marble.
These metamorphic rocks appear to be the
result of the metamorphism...
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Cryptocrystalline form of the
mineral quartz Ganister – Hard, fine-grained
quartzose sandstone, or
orthoquartzite Gossan –
Intensely oxidized,
weathered or...
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difference may be bridged. Such
current may
propagate into silica-rich
quartzose sand,
mixed soil, clay, or
other sediments,
rapidly vaporizing and melting...
- A
quartz arenite or
quartzarenite is a
sandstone composed of
greater than 90%
detrital quartz.
Quartz arenites are the most
mature sedimentary rocks possible...
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fangolitas (mud) and
arilitas (sand); the
whitish colouring is due to
quartzose,
sandstone and marls, rich in
calcium carbonate; the red is due to claystones...
- Utah is full of
highly polished red and
black cherts, and
other rounded quartzose clasts,
which may
partly represent gastroliths. The
cherts may themselves...
- compositions,
while the
areas between El
Fasher and
Nyala show
predominantly quartzose rocks.
About 100
miles east of
Jebel Marra, the
Archaean rocks are covered...
