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Whereas the quartzite and quartz raw material is easily available in close vicinity to the cave, the exact source for silcrete has not been established. en.wikipedia.org

The quartzite itself is about a billion and a half years old. en.wikipedia.org

Second, the lower middle member is composed of purple cross-bedded quartzite, sometimes is subdivided into two units, and overlies the lower member. en.wikipedia.org

The plants grow in a peaty quartzite sand, often with a gravel cover. en.wikipedia.org

The quartzite structure has a large sea arch, which somewhat resembles the bow of a fiddle. en.wikipedia.org

This brown quartzite statue was one of a series of near-identical statues that flanked the west side of a colonnaded courtyard. en.wikipedia.org

Differential erosion of resistant layers of quartzite has created high-relief circular cuestas. en.wikipedia.org

This is gray quartzite, which makes the mountain highly resistant to weathering. en.wikipedia.org

The underlying rock is acidic and sedimentary or metasedimentary (e.g., quartzites, sandstones and shales). en.wikipedia.org

The rock is an extremely hard quartzite derivative, and is characterized by painfully sharp edges, vanishing cracks, steep slabs and small horizontal roofs. en.wikipedia.org

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