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This term usually infers a regionally metamorphosed quartz-sandstone, but the term is commonly also used as a field term for orthoquartzite (a sedimentary rock), secondary quartzite and paraquartzite
Metamorphic rock consisting of greater than or equal to 75 percent quartz; typically granoblastic texture.
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Metamorphic rock consisting of greater than or equal to 75 percent quartz; typically granoblastic texture.
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quartzite
Metamorphic rock consisting of greater than or equal to 75 percent quartz; typically granoblastic texture.

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