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Quartzite is a decorative stone and may be used to cover walls, as roofing tiles, as flooring, and stairsteps. Crushed quartzite is sometimes used in road construction. Baraboo
Quartzite is commonly mined for use as railroad ballast.
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that appear visually similar to the patterns one might see in the sand at a beach. Ripples indicate that the sandstone from which the quartzite was metamorphosed was originally water-laid sediment.
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created by progressive deposition of layers of sand in the original sandstone from which the quartzite was formed (through
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A Baraboo
Quartzite sample, in breccia form. The brecciated purple portions are quartzite, and the matrix is white quartz
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Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to
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Wisconsin's
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Formations of quartzite can be found throughout the
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152:Boulder field on Eastern bluff at Devil's Lake
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