Sentence example with the word 'quartzite'

quartzite

Definition n. hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals

Last update: October 18, 2015


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Examined more closely these are found to be vast accumulations of blocks of quartzite, irregular in form, but having a tendency to a rude diamond shape, from 2 to 20 ft.   [Please select]

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Many of the large assemblages of Guillemots in the British Islands are found where the rock is quartzite, mica-schist, limestone, or chalk.   [Please select]

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It was a huge building far larger than the pyramid itself, and built of fine limestone and crystalline white quartzite, in a style eminently characteristic of the XIIth Dynasty.   [Please select]

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