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    Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone. Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and...
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    Baraboo Quartzite is a Precambrian geological formation of quartzite, found in the region of Baraboo, Wisconsin. While pure quartzite is usually white...
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  • Quartzite Mountain is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. The elevation is 7,762 feet (2,366 m). Quartzite Mountain was named for nearby quartzite deposits...
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    Sandstone (section Quartzite)
    and petroleum reservoirs. Quartz-bearing sandstone can be changed into quartzite through metamorphism, usually related to tectonic compression within orogenic...
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    Track ballast is the material which forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (UK: sleepers) are laid. It is packed between, below, and around the ties...
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    Aventurine is a form of quartzite, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give it a shimmering or glistening...
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    The Sioux Quartzite is a Proterozoic quartzite that is found in the region around the intersection of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa, and correlates...
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  • The Eureka Quartzite is an extensive Paleozoic marine sandstone deposit in western North America that is notable for its great extent, extreme purity...
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    confirmed that Quartz is fictionalized version of the real town of "Quartzite" [sic]. Quartzsite is featured in the Oscar-winning movie Nomadland. William...
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    483; 35.033 Shoksha quartzite, Shoksha porphyry, or crimson quartzite (Russian: малиновый кварцит, literally "raspberry quartzite") is quartzose sandstone...
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