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What is a quartzite?

What is a quartzite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a metamorphic rock consisting of interlocking grains of quartz
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The centre of the room is now occupied by the quartzite sarcophagus containing the outermost coffin.
It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist.
In addition to the volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, there are lenses of limestone, quartzite, shale and sandstone.
There are three chipped stone celts of Smoky Hill jasper in the collection and one of a very well cemented, fine-grained quartzite.
For instance, large quartzite boulders cap several of the mountain ridges in the Wallowa Mountains of northeast Oregon.
They contain some quartzite and quartz clasts and only a little debris derived from local Jurassic rocks.

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