Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of quartz. Quartzose rocks are such as are essentially made up of the mineral quartz. Also
quartzous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
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- adjective Pertaining to
quartz ; made of quartz.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or made of quartz
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Examples
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On the plateau the stripping away of most of the late Cretaceous rocks has produced a rugged landscape of resistant, flat-bedded quartzose sandstones, criss-crossed by weaker areas that have been deeply eroded into a maze of narrow valleys and gorges.
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Substrate here consists largely of hard, slow-weathering Precambrian quartzose rocks.
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Although shale is common, there is a mixture and interbedding of geologic materials, including cherts, siltstone, sandstone, quartzose limestone, and in Alabama some slate, quartzite, and metasiltstone.
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Erosion and the linear formation caused by folding mean that the mountains form strings of isolated, elevated land masses of quartzose substrates, similar to islands scattered throughout an archipelago.
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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.
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Thick, resistant Pennsylvanian quartzose sandstone caps the ridges and Mississippian limestone, shale, and siltstone are exposed on lower slopes and in valleys.
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The Cohansey consists of fine - to coarse-grained quartzose sand with foot-thick lenses of gravel.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey
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The ground is rocky, composed principally of quartzose detritus swept down by the constant streams.
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The tin is obtained in the form of black grains from beds of quartzose sand, and is melted into ingots in rude clay furnaces.
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The Jebel el-Abyaz is apparently the centre of the quartzose outcrop in North Midian (Madyan Proper).
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