How To Use quartzose In A Sentence
- The floor of the cavern was covered with heaps of water-worn fragments of quartzose rock, containing copper pyrites, in some of which the cavities were covered by a deposit of greenish calcedony. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
- The western region of Tasmania has a rugged topography, with a chain of north-south mountains that were formed as the quartzose basement sediments were folded repeatedly. Tasmanian temperate rain forests
- The Jebel el-Abyaz is apparently the centre of the quartzose outcrop in North Midian (Madyan Proper). The Land of Midian
- On the plateau the stripping away of most of the late Cretaceous rocks has produced a rugged landscape of resistant, flat-bedded quartzose sandstones, criss-crossed by weaker areas that have been deeply eroded into a maze of narrow valleys and gorges. Kakadu National Park, Australia
- Thick, resistant Pennsylvanian quartzose sandstone caps the ridges and Mississippian limestone, shale, and siltstone are exposed on lower slopes and in valleys. Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)
- Although shale is common, there is a mixture and interbedding of geologic materials, including cherts, siltstone, sandstone, quartzose limestone, and in Alabama some slate, quartzite, and metasiltstone. Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)
- The erupted rocks which have broken through and upheaved these strata have been elevated from depths that are wholly inaccessible to our research; they must, therefore, have existed under the silurian strata, and been composed of the same association of minerals which we term granite, augite, and quartzose porphyry, when they are made known to us by eruption through the surface. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
- Erosion and the linear formation caused by folding mean that the mountains form strings of isolated, elevated land masses of quartzose substrates, similar to islands scattered throughout an archipelago. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- The matrix varies in composition from black shale to carbonate mudstone and quartzose siltstone.
- The Cohansey consists of fine - to coarse-grained quartzose sand with foot-thick lenses of gravel. Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey