quartzite
quartzite
Definition
quartz·ite (kwôrt′sīt′)
quartzite
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: In past geological eras, various rocks including quartzite, grits and the Durness limestones were laid over much of the area.
- overlie: This includes a thin tract of Torridonian together with the overlying Cambrian quartzites.
- comprise: These comprise quartzites, sandstones and shales that are exposed at the southern end of the Malvern Hills.
Adjective modifier
- Cambrian: To the west Cambrian quartzites lie directly above the Ben More Thrust.
- shattered: At 023 049, a large fault is observed, trending approximately N-S, which juxtaposes shattered quartzite against shattered quartzite.
- Precambrian: The oil was produced from fractured PreCambrian quartzite on the summits of the buried hills.
- white: Upon a plinth of Torridonian sandstones lies the continuous cliff-line of bright white Cambrian quartzites.
- hard: A possible basal unconformity has been observed with a fine grained conglomerate lying on the hard Devonian quartzite.
- undeformed: Relatively undeformed quartzite far from the main fault with a single through-going microcrack.
Modifies a noun
- pebble: A layer of white quartzite pebbles covered some graves.
- rock: The snowy white scree is made from quartzite rock.
- block: But a line of quartzite blocks lies hundreds of meters ahead of the hillside too.
- scree: Beinn Eighe 57 1152 x 864 379K Beinn Eighe's white quartzite scree spills down into Coire Dubh.
- sandstone: It and all the other articles in this chamber are of the same quartzite sandstone as the chamber.
- boulder: Large quartzite boulder beaches lie stranded up to 50M above the current sea level.
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