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The centre of the room is now occupied by the quartzite sarcophagus containing the outermost coffin.
For instance, large quartzite boulders cap several of the mountain ridges in the Wallowa Mountains of northeast Oregon.
It contains a variety of lithologies including augen gneiss, quartzite, amphibolite, calc-silicate, pelite and marble.
There are three chipped stone celts of Smoky Hill jasper in the collection and one of a very well cemented, fine-grained quartzite.
Among its slate and quartzite houses stands the church of Santiago, a Mozarab temple from the 10th century.
Studies and a large hall were trimmed with multicolored marble, and there were marble statues on massive quartzite bases in niches.
It is underlain by schist, phyllite, and quartzite, although outcrops of serpentine are common in the area.
The most resistant rocks are quartzite and quartz-rich sandstones, and tough fine-grained rocks such as slate.
In addition to the volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, there are lenses of limestone, quartzite, shale and sandstone.
The cobbles are dominated by pink quartzite, red sandstone and vein quartz, with minor granite clasts near the contact and rare green clasts.
They contain some quartzite and quartz clasts and only a little debris derived from local Jurassic rocks.
It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist.
It is composed of gneiss and migmatite that contain minor lenses of schist, marble, phyllite and quartzite.
The bottom floor is covered in quartzite stone the hue of the surrounding ocean-side bluffs.
They are primarily quartzite, granite, and granitized schists.
Claims in the Gilman area to the north of Red Cliff were being developed on steeply dipping veins in granite and on gently dipping ledges in both quartzite and dolomite.
Small lithic fragments comprise quartzite, gneiss and ubiquitous andesite.
Conglomerate clasts are principally volcanic rocks and greenish gray chert, with subordinate arkose, graywacke, siltstone, red chert, quartzite, white quartz, and limestone.
The Archaean Baidrag complex, composed of tonalitic gneiss, granulite and amphibolite, with minor marble and quartzite, has been interpreted as a microcontinental block.
Ventifacts are produced under arid conditions and are generally formed from hard, fine-grained rocks such as obsidian, chert, or quartzite.
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The compact quartzite of Sioux Falls, Dakota, is being quarried and polished for ornamental purposes.
Resembles the Cranberry ore deposits.These ores are underlaid by syenite and quartzite, and overlaid by limestone.
This series is overlain unconformably by a younger quartzite of similar character, and itself rests upon the crystalline schists.
The finished implements found were two axes, of a plagioclase igneous rock, and three arrow points, all of quartzite.
The most elevated rock, in place, on the sources of the Mississippi, is found to be quartzite.
Sandstone may be converted into quartzite, and shale into argillite, a compact, massive clay rock.
The veins are true fissures, and strike across the country rocks, which are principally porphyry and quartzite.
It appears to us from its use to have been either a quartzite or a fissile limestone.
Sandstone is changed into quartzite, the sand grains being melted so as to become no longer visible to the naked eye.
For furnace linings, the quartzite or ganister must be exceptionally pure.
Pebbles of the conglomerate are mainly quartz and quartzite.
Fragments of epidote, porphyry and flinty quartzite lay around.
It is not volcanic, but consists of argillaceous schist and quartzite.
For them flint and quartzite took the place of bronze, iron, or steel.
Between December 2000 and December 2001, the river chewed down about 6 millimeters through quartzite rocks and about 2 mm through a tough type of rock known as schist.
The investigated screes are formed by andesite, basalt, conglomerate, limestone, phonolite, quartzite, sandstone, granite and other kinds of rock.
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