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UK
/kwˈɔːtsaɪt/
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NOUN
- hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals
How To Use quartzite In A Sentence
- Tian Hengshan 72 meters above sea level, Southeast and Dans associative, rock was also red ocher, belongs to the Sinian ferruginous quartzite.
- Silicified carbonaceous schist and graphitic quartzite occur as lenses or layers with extremely variable thickness and are mostly confined to the immediate vicinity of ultramafic rock units.
- Upon retirement, Hugh and Florence spent 18 wonderful winters in Quartzite, Arizona with many very valued friends.
- The quartzites locally contain fuchsite (chrome mica) where proximal to the mineralization. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
- Another type of sphalerite is the botryoidal variety schalenblende, which occurs sparingly in one zone of the Sawatch Quartzite.
- Portions are underlain by argillite and quartzite; they have substantially different water quality and fish assemblages than other areas underlain by limestone and dolomite. Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)
- It is dominated at the exposure by angular quartzite clasts up to 40 cm long with subordinate, subroundcd sandy dolomite, angular micaceous siltstone and limestone clasts.
- In addition to the volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, there are lenses of limestone, quartzite, shale and sandstone.
- In eastern Wyoming is a unique deposit of uranium ore in a quartzite which lies between mica-schist and granite. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- Based on field observations, a generalized sequence of events and mineralization at the Melco deposit began with structural deformation along a contact of sandstone and quartzite during the Mesozoic Period.