quartzose
Americanadjective
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Quartz-rock, or quartzite, is an altered quartzose sandstone or grit; it is generally a white or grayish-yellow rock, very hard and compact.
From Geology by James Geikie
Why should this chamber contain only a quartzose compound of oxygen and silica, and that second chamber beside it contain only a calcareous compound of lime and carbonic acid?
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
The mountains were tinged with an amber-coloured light; and the quartzose crystals sparkled on the peaks of the southern sierra.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
This granite varies much; being below a coarse quartzose grey rock, above a very compact brown rock, except perhaps in its lowest outcrop, where it has a slaty structure.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
The geologist's theory, combined with the knowledge that the noble metal is 'chiefly found among palæozoic rocks of a quartzose type,' is practically valuable on the Gold Coast.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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