Eureka Quartzite
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eureka-quartzite-261-10977621
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Eureka Quartzite
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The Eureka Quartzite is an extensive Paleozoic marine sandstone deposit in western North America that is notable for its great extent, extreme purity, consistently fine grain size of Quartzite, and its tendency to form conspicuous white cliffs visible from afar. The Eureka is commonly underlain and overlain by contrasting slope-forming limestone and dolomite strata, all of Ordovician age. It was named in 1883 for the Eureka mineral district in Nevada, and that name is used almost exclusively in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Quartzite
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2021-05-26T06:25:31Z
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