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Quartz is a hard,
crystalline mineral composed of
silica (silicon dioxide). The
atoms are
linked in a
continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra...
- A
quartz arenite or
quartzarenite is a
sandstone composed of
greater than 90%
detrital quartz.
Quartz arenites are the most
mature sedimentary rocks possible...
- epidote-quartz schist, biotite-calcite-quartz schist, and thin
layers of
quartzose marble.
These metamorphic rocks appear to be the
result of the metamorphism...
- (541 to 485 Ma) in
Malaysia is the
Machinchang Formation,
composed of
quartzose clastic rock formations, in Langkawi; the
other known example, the Jerai...
- A
ganister (or
sometimes gannister ) is hard, fine-grained
quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite, used in the
manufacture of
silica brick typically used...
- ****iniboine. The Gog
Group consists primarily of
thick deposits of cross-bedded
quartzose sandstone and quartzite, with
minor quartzitic conglomerate and sub-arkosic...
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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...
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pressure solution and
quartz cementation in moderately-and deeply-buried
quartzose sandstones from the
Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming".
Special Publications...
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western Tasmania which are
characterised by
soils derived from pre-Cambrian
quartzose rock.
These sandy,
infertile soils are
dominated by a wet
heath ecosystem...
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seams 400 m (1,310 ft)
Monach Formation Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)
quartzose sandstone,
minor coal 350 m (1,150 ft)
Beattie Peaks Formation Early Cretaceous...
