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  2. Greywacke - Wikipedia

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    Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness (6–7 on Mohs scale), dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

  3. List of sandstones - Wikipedia

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    Bollingen Sandstone (also Buchberg Sandstone, Uznaberg Sandstone, Bollinger-Lehholz Sandstone and Güntliweid Sandstone): Rapperswil-Jona by the Upper Lake Zürich Grès à cailloux roulés : near Avenches

  4. List of rock types - Wikipedia

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    Greywacke – Sandstone with angular grains in a clay-fine matrix; Gritstone – Hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone; Ironstone – Sedimentary rock that contains a substantial proportion of iron ore; Itacolumite – Porous sandstone known for flexibility; Jaspillite – Banded mixture of hematite and quartz

  5. Lithic sandstone - Wikipedia

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    Top image is in plane polarized light (PPL); bottom image is in cross polarized light (XPL). Blue epoxy fills pore spaces. Photomicrograph of a volcanic sand grain; upper picture is plane-polarized light, bottom picture is cross-polarized light, scale box at left-center is 0.25 millimeter. This type of grain is a main component of a lithic ...

  6. Franciscan Complex - Wikipedia

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    The Franciscan Complex is an assemblage of metamorphosed and deformed rocks, associated with east-dipping subduction zone at the western coast of North America. [6] Although most of the Franciscan is Early/Late Jurassic through Cretaceous in age (150-66 Ma), [ 7 ] some Franciscan rocks are as old as early Jurassic (180-190 Ma) age and as young ...

  7. Greensand - Wikipedia

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    Greensand or green sand is a sand or sandstone which has a greenish color. This term is specifically applied to shallow marine sediment that contains noticeable quantities of rounded greenish grains. These grains are called glauconies and consist of a mixture of mixed-layer clay minerals, such as smectite and glauconite. Greensand is also ...

  8. Metamorphic rock - Wikipedia

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    Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism. The original rock ( protolith ) is subjected to temperatures greater than 150 to 200 °C (300 to 400 °F) and, often, elevated pressure of 100 megapascals (1,000 bar ) or more, causing profound physical or chemical changes.

  9. Quartzite - Wikipedia

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    Quartzite can have a grainy, glassy, sandpaper-like surface. Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone. [1] [2] Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to tectonic compression within orogenic belts.

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