Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone. Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and...
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Quartzite Lake is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the White Cloud Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area...
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Quartzite Mountain is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. The elevation is 7,762 feet (2,366 m). Quartzite Mountain was named for nearby quartzite deposits...
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The Sais Quartzite is a geologic formation exposed in the Los Pinos Mountains of central New Mexico. The formation consists of up to 600 feet (180 m)...
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Baraboo Quartzite is a Precambrian geological formation of quartzite, found in the region of Baraboo, Wisconsin. While pure quartzite is usually white...
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Quartzsite, Arizona (redirect from Quartzite, Arizona)
confirmed that Quartz is fictionalized version of the real town of "Quartzite" [sic]. Quartzsite is featured in the Oscar-winning movie Nomadland. William...
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Aventurine is a form of quartzite, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give it a shimmering or glistening...
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483; 35.033 Shoksha quartzite, Shoksha porphyry, or crimson quartzite (Russian: малиновый кварцит, literally "raspberry quartzite") is quartzose sandstone...
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Track ballast (redirect from Pink Lady (quartzite))
Track ballast is the material which forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (UK: sleepers) are laid. It is packed between, below, and around the ties...
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The Eureka Quartzite is an extensive Paleozoic marine sandstone deposit in western North America that is notable for its great extent, extreme purity...
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The Sioux Quartzite is a Proterozoic quartzite that is found in the region around the intersection of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa, and correlates...
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West Quartzite Range (72°0′S 164°45′E / 72.000°S 164.750°E / -72.000; 164.750 (West Quartzite Range)) is a range, the western of two parallel quartzite...
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Everett Range, Mirabito Range, King Range, Leitch Massif, East Quartzite Range and West Quartzite Range. They are north of the Admiralty Mountains, northeast...
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It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone. This rock is part of the Cullen Quartzite formation which is seen...
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of metamorphic rocks are gneiss, slate, marble, schist, and quartzite. Slate and quartzite tiles are used in building construction. Marble is also prized...
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redirect targets – A glass formed by melting within a fault via friction Quartzite – Hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock – A metamorphosed sandstone typically...
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human form. The Venus of Tan-Tan was described by Robert G. Bednarik. The quartzite object is 6 centimetres (2.4 in) long, 2.6 centimetres (1.0 in) wide,...
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The Shinumo Quartzite also known as the Shinumo Sandstone, is a Mesoproterozoic rock formation, which outcrops in the eastern Grand Canyon, Coconino County...
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Hauki quartzite (Swedish: Haukikvartsiten) is a rock unit of quartz arenite found in northernmost Sweden. More arkosic parts are of reddish colour but...
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Kinks Wall of Fire (mountain), a 700 m cliff face of vertically displaced quartzite in the Swartberg mountain range in South Africa Romance of the Three Kingdoms...
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Mazatzal Group (redirect from Mazatzal Peak Quartzite)
The Mazatzal Group consists mostly of fine-grained light-brown to gray quartzite which often shows cross-bedding; metaconglomerate containing clasts up...
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structure dip outward at 10–20°. Differential erosion of resistant layers of quartzite has created high-relief circular cuestas. Its center consists of a siliceous...
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formation composed of 210 m (690 ft) of Ediacaran siltstone, sandstone, quartzite, conglomerate, and minor dolomite. It is exposed in the exposed in the...
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The Cambrian Hardyston Formation or Hardyston Quartzite is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was originally described by Wolff...
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slopes are deposited upon the cliff-forming unit of Shinumo Quartzite. The Shinumo Quartzite forms the cliff-base of Isis Temple, with highly erodable units...
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Stiperstones (category Quartzite formations)
(Welsh: Carneddau Teon) is a distinctive hill in Shropshire, England. The quartzite rock of the ridge formed some 480 million years ago. During the last Ice...
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The East Quartzite Range (72°0′S 165°5′E / 72.000°S 165.083°E / -72.000; 165.083 (East Quartzite Range)) is a mountain range, 12 nautical miles (22 km;...
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human occupation of what later is Cambodia, which includes quartz and quartzite pebble tools found in terraces along the Mekong River, in Stung Treng...
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Monkton Quartzite is a geologic formation in Vermont. It preserves fossils dating back to the middle of the Cambrian period. The Monkton Quartzite consists...
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