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  2. 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.

  3. QFL diagram - Wikipedia

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    Ternary diagram showing the relative abundance of quartz, feldspar, and lithic grains and views of what selected compositions would look like. 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 ...

  4. List of sandstones - Wikipedia

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    Bäch Sandstone: by the Lake Zürich; Bern Sandstone: quarry sites near Bern in Ostermundigen, Krauchthal and by the Gurten; 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; Grès de ...

  5. 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] Quartz arenites are the most mature sedimentary rocks possible, and are often referred to as ultra- or super-mature, and are usually cemented by silica. They ...

  6. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Krukowski Quarry, a sandstone quarry near Mosinee, Wisconsin. It yields late Cambrian period fossils, in the course of quarrying rock slabs for countertops and other purposes. Quasius Quarry, in Rhine, Wisconsin near the Sheboygan River, NRHP-listed. A limestone quarry and lime kilns for producing quicklime, built in 1911 and abandoned in the ...

  7. Sandstone - Wikipedia

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    Kurkar – Regional name for an aeolian quartz calcrete on the Levantine coast; Sedimentary basin – Regions of long-term subsidence creating space for infilling by sediments; Sydney sandstone – Medium to coarse-grained quartz sandstone with minor shale and laminite lenses; Yorkstone – Variety of sandstone from Yorkshire, England

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