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2. Kurkar - Wikipedia

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   Kurkar is the regional name for an aeolian quartz sandstone with carbonate cement, [3] in other words an eolianite or a calcarenite (calcareous sandstone or grainstone), found on the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Turkey, [3] Syria, Lebanon, Israel, [4] the Gaza Strip [5] and northern Sinai Peninsula. [6]

3. QFL diagram - Wikipedia

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   A QFL diagram or QFL triangle is a type of ternary diagram that shows compositional data from sandstones and modern sands, point counted using the Gazzi-Dickinson method. The abbreviations used are as follows: Q – quartz; F – feldspar; L – lithic fragments

4. Quartz arenite - Wikipedia

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   Quartz arenite makes up the Prospect Mountain Quartzite on top of Doso Doyabi, Nevada. A quartz arenite or quartzarenite is a sandstone composed of greater than 90% detrital quartz. [1]

5. Sandstone - Wikipedia

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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 comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.

6. List of sandstones - Wikipedia

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   Steenpan (also Flatpan or Klippan), Free State province, near Wolvehoek; Table Mountain Sandstone Western Cape province, various quarry sites; numerous types, some without trade names, from the Karoo Supergroup in many quarries near Graaff-Reinet, Cradock, Queenstown, Aliwal North, Burgersdorp and Sterkstroom; Těšínský sandstone quarry ...

7. Arenite - Wikipedia

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   Other arenites include sandstones, arkoses, greensands, and greywackes. Arenites mainly form by erosion of other rocks or turbiditic re-deposition of sands. Some arenites contain a varying amount of carbonatic components and thus belong to the rock-category of carbonatic sandstones or silicatic limestones .