Table of Contents
100 relations: Anglesey, Appalachian Mountains, Arenig, Arizona, Arkle (Sutherland), Austertana, Świętokrzyskie Mountains, Back-arc basin, Baraboo Range, Basement (geology), Belt Supergroup, British Geological Survey, Cache County, Utah, Cambrian, Carbonate, Carcinogen, Chlorite group, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Continental Europe, Corraun Peninsula, County Donegal, County Mayo, Czech Republic, Deformation (physics), Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin), Diagenesis, England, Errigal, Ferrosilicon, Field research, Flint, Foinaven, Foliation (geology), Fossil, French Alps, Greenstone belt, Hartshill, Harz, Hematite, Holy Island, Anglesey, Holyhead Mountain, Idaho, Ireland, Isle of Skye, Kragerø, La Cloche Mountains, Laurentia, Loch Eriboll, Long Mynd, Magnetite, ... Expand index (50 more) »
- Metasedimentary rocks
- Quartz varieties
- Quartzite formations
Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.
Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.
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Arenig
In geology, the Arenig (or Arenigian) is a time interval during the Ordovician period and also the suite of rocks which were deposited during this interval.
Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Arkle (Sutherland)
Arkle is a mountain in Sutherland, in the far north-west corner of the Scottish Highlands.
See Quartzite and Arkle (Sutherland)
Austertana
,, or is a village in Deatnu-Tana Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
Świętokrzyskie Mountains
The Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Góry Świętokrzyskie), often anglicized to Holy Cross Mountains, are a mountain range in central Poland, near the city of Kielce.
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Back-arc basin
A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries.
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Baraboo Range
The Baraboo Range is a mountain range in Columbia County and Sauk County, Wisconsin.
See Quartzite and Baraboo Range
Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
See Quartzite and Basement (geology)
Belt Supergroup
The Belt Supergroup is an assemblage of primarily fine-grained sedimentary rocks and mafic intrusive rocks of late Precambrian (Mesoproterozoic) age.
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British Geological Survey
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.
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Cache County, Utah
Cache County is a county located in the Wasatch Front region of Utah.
See Quartzite and Cache County, Utah
Cambrian
The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.
Carbonate
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.
Carcinogen
A carcinogen is any agent that promotes the development of cancer.
Chlorite group
The chlorites are the group of phyllosilicate minerals common in low-grade metamorphic rocks and in altered igneous rocks.
See Quartzite and Chlorite group
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d'Alene (Awl) is a city and the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States.
See Quartzite and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
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Corraun Peninsula
The Corraun Peninsula, also spelt Currane (Irish:An Corrán), is a peninsula in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland.
See Quartzite and Corraun Peninsula
County Donegal
County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region.
See Quartzite and County Donegal
County Mayo
County Mayo is a county in Ireland.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
See Quartzite and Czech Republic
Deformation (physics)
In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object.
See Quartzite and Deformation (physics)
Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin)
Devil's Lake State Park is a state park located in the Baraboo Range in eastern Sauk County, just south of Baraboo, Wisconsin.
See Quartzite and Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin)
Diagenesis
Diagenesis is the process that describes physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial activity, and compaction after their deposition.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Errigal
Errigal is a mountain near Gweedore in County Donegal, Ireland.
Ferrosilicon
Ferrosilicon is an alloy of iron and silicon with a typical silicon content by weight of 15–90%.
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Field research
Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting.
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Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
Foinaven
Foinaven (Foinne Bheinn) is a mountain in Scotland, situated in the far northwest corner of the Scottish Highlands.
Foliation (geology)
Foliation in geology refers to repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
French Alps
The French Alps (Alpes françaises) are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions.
Greenstone belt
Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies.
See Quartzite and Greenstone belt
Hartshill
Hartshill is a large village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, England, adjoined with the much larger town of Nuneaton, the town centre of which is 2.5 miles (4 km) to the south-east.
Harz
The Harz is a highland area in northern Germany.
Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils.
Holy Island, Anglesey
Holy Island (Ynys Gybi, 'the island of (Saint) Cybi') is an island on the western side of the larger Isle of Anglesey, Wales, from which it is separated by the Cymyran Strait.
See Quartzite and Holy Island, Anglesey
Holyhead Mountain
Holyhead Mountain (Welsh Mynydd Twr, from mynydd 'mountain, unenclosed land' and twr 'a heap, pile') is the highest point on Holy Island, Anglesey, and in the county of Anglesey, north Wales.
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Idaho
Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Isle of Skye
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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Kragerø
Kragerø is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.
La Cloche Mountains
The La Cloche Mountains, also called the La Cloche Range, are a range of mountains in Northern Ontario, Canada, along the northern shore of Lake Huron near Manitoulin Island.
See Quartzite and La Cloche Mountains
Laurentia
Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America.
Loch Eriboll
Loch Eriboll (Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Euraboil") is a long sea loch on the north coast of Scotland, which has been used for centuries as a deep water anchorage as it is safe from the often stormy seas of Cape Wrath and the Pentland Firth.
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Long Mynd
The Long Mynd (Cefn Hirfynydd) is a heath and moorland plateau that forms part of the Shropshire Hills in Shropshire, England.
Magnetite
Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula.
Maria fold and thrust belt
The Maria fold and thrust belt (MFTB) is a portion of the North American Cordillera orogen in which geological structures accommodate roughly north–south to northwest-southeast vergent Mesozoic age crustal shortening.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
See Quartzite and Metamorphic rock
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Moine Thrust Belt
The Moine Thrust Belt or Moine Thrust Zone is a linear tectonic feature in the Scottish Highlands which runs from Loch Eriboll on the north coast southwest to the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye.
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Monte Binga
Monte Binga is the highest mountain in Mozambique and the second-highest in Zimbabwe. Quartzite and Monte Binga are Quartzite formations.
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
Neomorphism
Neomorphism refers to the wet metamorphic process in which diagenetic alterations systematically transform minerals into either polymorphs or crystalline structures that are structurally identical to the rock(s) from which they developed.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.
Nuneaton
Nuneaton is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire to the north-east.
Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
Orogeny
Orogeny is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
Paleoproterozoic
The Paleoproterozoic Era (also spelled Palaeoproterozoic) is the first of the three sub-divisions (eras) of the Proterozoic eon, and also the longest era of the Earth's geological history, spanning from (2.5–1.6 Ga).
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Porphyroblast
A porphyroblast is a large mineral crystal in a metamorphic rock which has grown within the finer grained matrix.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
Pulmonary fibrosis
Pulmonary fibrosis is a condition in which the lungs become scarred over time.
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Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).
Quartz arenite
A quartz arenite or quartzarenite is a sandstone composed of greater than 90% detrital quartz.
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Quartzsite, Arizona
Quartzsite is a town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
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Rhenish Massif
The Rhenish Massif, Rhine Massif or Rhenish Uplands (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge,: 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France.
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Rhyolite
Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.
Rutile
Rutile is an oxide mineral composed of titanium dioxide (TiO2), the most common natural form of TiO2.
Salangen Municipality
Salangen is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.
See Quartzite and Salangen Municipality
Sandhornøya
Sandhornøya or Sandhornøy is a mountainous island in the municipality of Gildeskål in Nordland county, Norway.
Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands (the Hielands; a' Ghàidhealtachd) is a historical region of Scotland.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
See Quartzite and Sedimentary rock
Shropshire
Shropshire (historically SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name. and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.
Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.
Silicon carbide
Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum, is a hard chemical compound containing silicon and carbon.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Silicosis
Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust.
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
South Dakota
South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.
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Stiperstones
The Stiperstones (Carneddau Teon) is a distinctive hill in Shropshire, England. Quartzite and Stiperstones are Quartzite formations.
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Stone tool
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.
Taunus
The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden.
Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
The Wrekin
The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England.
Thin section
In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section (or petrographic thin section) is a thin slice of a rock or mineral sample, prepared in a laboratory, for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope, electron microscope and electron microprobe.
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Tony Grove Lake
Tony Grove Lake is a lake in Cache County, Utah.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about from the Utah-Idaho border south to central Utah.
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Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
Wheeler Peak (Nevada)
Wheeler Peak is the tallest mountain in the Snake Range and in White Pine County, in Nevada, United States.
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White Pine County, Nevada
White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
Zircon
Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates and is a source of the metal zirconium.
See also
Metasedimentary rocks
Quartz varieties
- Chert
- Dynamic quartz recrystallization
- Herkimer diamond
- Myrickite
- Petrified wood
- Phantom quartz
- Quartzite
- Rutilated quartz
- Shocked quartz
Quartzite formations
- Baraboo Quartzite
- Champe Rocks
- Chickies Formation
- Dripping Spring Quartzite
- Eureka Quartzite
- Foothills Erratics Train
- Gog Group
- Hardyston Quartzite
- Jeffers Petroglyphs
- Kananaskis Formation
- Letná Formation
- Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site
- Mazatzal Group
- Monkton Quartzite
- Monte Binga
- Nelson Rocks
- North Stack
- Oakley stone
- Okotoks Erratic
- Ortega Formation
- Point of Rocks (Baraboo, Wisconsin)
- Quartzite
- Quartzites et Poudingues de Trémentines
- Seneca Rocks
- Shinumo Quartzite
- Shoksha quartzite
- Sioux Quartzite
- Steptoe Butte
- Stiperstones
- Stirling Quartzite Formation
- The Crack (trail)
- Tunnel Mountain Formation
- Tuscarora Sandstone
- Van Hise Rock
- Watson Ranch Quartzite
- White Ledges Formation
- White Wall (Taunus)
- Wood Canyon Formation
- Wulingyuan
- Zabriskie Quartzite
References
Also known as Metaquartzite, Orthoquartzite, Protoquartzite, Quartzites, Quartzitic, Sericitic Quartzite, Sugar quartz, Vitreous Quartzite.