Quartzite

Object/Artifact

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Great Valley Museum

Name/Title

Quartzite

Entry/Object ID

0001.1.232

Description

A very hard but unmetamorphosed sandstone, consisting chiefly of quartz grains that are so completely cemented with secondary silica that the rock breaks through the grains rather than around them; an orthoquartzite

Collection

Brown, Will

Dimensions

Height

37 mm

Width

60 mm

Length

85 mm

Weight

201 g