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Learn about quartz vs. quartzite countertops pros and cons from experts, including differences in cost, care, and design possibilities.
Quartzite is a very hard rock composed predominantly of an interlocking mosaic of quartz crystals. The grainy, sandpaper-like surface is glassy in appearance. Minor amounts of former cementing materials, iron oxide, silica, carbonate and clay, often migrate during recrystallization, causing streaks and lenses to form within the quartzite. [ 1 ]
The Shinumo Quartzite also known as the Shinumo Sandstone, is a Mesoproterozoic rock formation, which outcrops in the eastern Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, (Northern Arizona). It is the 3rd member of the 5-unit Unkar Group. The Shinumo Quartzite consists of a series of massive, cliff-forming sandstones and sedimentary quartzites.
Aventurine feldspar or sunstone can be confused with orange and red aventurine quartzite, although the former is generally of a higher transparency. Aventurine is often banded and an overabundance of fuchsite may render it opaque, in which case it may be mistaken for malachite at first glance.
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The unit is a thick sequence of massive quartzite beds, white to reddish or tan in color, 2 to 7 feet (0.6 to 2 m) thick. There are also scattered beds of sericite schist that become more numerous in the uppermost part of the formation, where the quartzite beds thin to 1 to 2 feet (0.3 to 0.6 m) in thickness and the beds are reddened by hematite.