Quartzite
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Metamorphic rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Colour
- White, Grey, Pink
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Building, Industry
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Quartzite is sandstone whose grains fused under heat and pressure, so it breaks through the grains, not around them.
- The ridge of Ještěd, the mountain above Liberec in Czechia, is built of quartzite.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q237883 · All stones · All entries