This granite varies much; being below a coarse quartzose grey rock, above. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Substrate here consists largely of hard, slow-weathering Precambrian quartzose rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian temperate rain forests] Reference
The Cohansey consists of fine - to coarse-grained quartzose sand with foot-thick lenses of gravel. From Wordnik.com. [Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey] Reference
The ground is rocky, composed principally of quartzose detritus swept down by the constant streams. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
The soil is composed of a mixture of red quartzose sand, mud, and clay, in which the first bore the greatest proportion. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
They consist chiefly of granulitic quartzose schists and felspathic gneisses, permeated in places by strings and veins of pegmatite. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The northern coast is low, the land sloping upwards to the south, where it terminates in vertical cliffs of schistose and quartzose rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Vast blocks of rock, of many sorts, lie strewed on the south side; one in particular is quartzose, remarkable for the indentations on its surface. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The watercourses of the Gháts or coast-range were streaked with a heavy, metallic, quartzose black sand which M. Marie vainly attempted to analyze. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, where small brilliant crystals are associated with malachite and chrysocolla in a quartzose rock; Rézbánya in the Bihar. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Thick, resistant Pennsylvanian quartzose sandstone caps the ridges and Mississippian limestone, shale, and siltstone are exposed on lower slopes and in valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)] Reference
The western region of Tasmania has a rugged topography, with a chain of north-south mountains that were formed as the quartzose basement sediments were folded repeatedly. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian temperate rain forests] Reference
The quartzose sand contains fragments of feldspar. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
The zechstein of Europe also contains a very quartzose sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Cumanacoa, and a pretty thin strata of marl and quartzose sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
The river was again confined in its own valley, with quartzose rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Brittany and Saintonge, and generally quartzose between the mouth of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
The rock in this part is a quartzose sand-stone, of a red and gray colour. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
The whole was surrounded by a beach consisting of fine clean quartzose sand. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Two kinds of sand cover the shore; one is black and basaltic, the other white and quartzose. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Mediterranean, extensive enough and strong enough to transport quartzose sand across the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
The valley of Cooper's Creek was, however, bounded in by low quartzose hills, covered with sand. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
According to the French authorities, the dunes of France are not always composed of quartzose sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
It is usual with quartzose ores to rely mainly on the action of carbonate of soda, but not entirely. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
The Jebel el-Abyaz is apparently the centre of the quartzose outcrop in North Midian (Madyan Proper). From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
In some ledges we recognised round masses, of a blackish gray, very quartzose, and almost destitute of mica. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Between Nueva Barcelona and the Cerro del Bergantin a quartzose sandstone covers the Jura limestone of Cumanacoa. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The top of the Imposible, as nearly as I could perceive, is covered with a quartzose sandstone, free from petrifactions. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Importance of the eruption of quartzose, porphyry with reference to the then existing configuration of continental masses. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
The tin is obtained in the form of black grains from beds of quartzose sand, and is melted into ingots in rude clay furnaces. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference
Angular fragments of madrepores, and cellularia from two to three cubic inches, are found cemented by grains of quartzose sand. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The mountains were tinged with an amber-coloured light; and the quartzose crystals sparkled on the peaks of the southern sierra. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
Far beyond its right bank rose an Ash'hab, or "grey head," which seemed to promise quartzose granite: it will prove an important feature. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
In all holes, the hanging-wall sequence was dominated by volcano-sedimentary breccias and tuffs, as well as quartzose sandstones and mudstones. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
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