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Quartzite Falls on the Slate River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #WaterfallWednesday!
March 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM
bedform.org
Delightful hike in the Snowy Range this morning. So lucky to have this paleoproterozoic playground in my backyard
July 26, 2026 at 10:45 PM
robertsnickc.bsky.social
Yellow-brown quartzite head of a princess, daughter of Akhenaten.

#Sculpture, New Kingdom, #Egypt (c. 1352-1336 B.C.) #art
September 15, 2026 at 8:20 AM
wintersweetbou.bsky.social
Moss on quartzite! The sun shining on the boulders made them look like glittering ice 🌿

#moss
Moss clump growing happily in a crack on a sparkly quartzite boulder. Quartzite is made from quartz based sandstone being compressed with heat and pressure within the earths crust into a metamorphic rock.
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
antifapuddinpop.bsky.social
OMG I am drooling over this quartzite. It's going on a wet bar with charcoal cabinets and floating shelves. 😍
February 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
More quartzite folds within folds ⚒️
More quartzite folds within folds
June 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
callanbentley.bsky.social
Oxidized red mud chip rip-up clasts in Grinnell Formation quartzite. ⚒️
A rock made of big red (fine grained) dots surrounded by white (sandy) quartzite
July 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
bedform.org
My office this week >>> your office this week
August 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
SO GUESS WHO’S AT THE EMERGENCY VET WITH A STUPID ORANGE BOY WHO CONSUMED HIS ENTIRE WORMY TOY THIS MORNING

Completely unrelated to this in any respect whatsoever, I’m running another sale—20% off all physical items in my store for the rest of the month tarotdruid.etsy.com
A wind chime made with fossil mollusk shells and tumbled multicolored quartzite. Bracelet made from tumbled multicolored quartzite. Wirewrapped pendant made with silver wire and a white-gray semitransluscent piece of tumbled quartzite. Bracelet made with white and gray tumbled quartzite and glass accent beads.
September 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
kevinmgill.bsky.social
These rocks have seen some schist...
A tall warped and folded outcrop Bedded quartzite and marble (I think) of the Pelona Schist series. Mylonite with blebs of lighter rock Bedded quartzite and marble (I think) of the Pelona Schist series.
May 25, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Beautiful unfinished head of Queen Nefertiti, made in quartzite about 1340 BC (Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, Cairo)
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
jakecasephoto.bsky.social
Last night’s fiery sunset over the Dome Rock Mountains near Quartzite, Arizona.
September 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
lucagalletti.bsky.social
Natural quartzite mining site in Brazil
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 PM
dbrauer.net
Greetings from Blue Mounds State Park. We ride with the bison this afternoon.
Compassflower, yellow, a bit like a daisy, in a prairie field against a blue sky. So named because the blooms point east or west. A hiking path curved to the right amid rocky prairie, mostly gas but also quartzite, against a blue sky. A rocky quartzite boulder right of frame overlooking a small lake and surrounded by prairie grass, against a blue sky. A deep historic quarry, iron colored cracked layers of metamorphic quartzite, trees poking out from the top against a blue sky. Valuable pipestone is underneath the quartzite. The quarry is maybe 50 feet tall.
July 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM
wrycritic.bsky.social
Omg. They made Avatar from Avatar a real place

(Zhangjiajie National Forest Park)
Natalia im front of quartzite pillars A rock face shrouded in fog
April 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
houseofbast777.bsky.social
Head of Queen Nefertiti ~
Made out of quartzite, the head once belonged to a composite statue assembled from several separately carved pieces
Egyptian Museum
New kingdom: 18th Dynasty
Archaeological Site / Provenance: Upper Egypt
February 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
silicatefondue.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Left: Graphite in Quartzite, from Ticonderoga, New York.

Right: Graphite in red cedar and yellow paint

#mincup26 #graphite #pencillead #metamorphism #ticonderoga #newyork
Dark shiny layer of graphite attached to host quartzite. From our teaching collection (pen cap for scale). From Ticonderoga, New York. Ticonderoga pencils that used to be made from Ticonderoga graphite and red cedar wood.
September 24, 2026 at 9:00 PM
rovingrollo.bsky.social
Here's one for #RockinTuesday

Quartzite intrusion in Basalt, Near Durness, North West Scotland. May 2019

A petrified Orc leg ?

#Geology #Scotland #NorthWestHighlandGeoPark #Photography #EastCoastKin
Basalt rock split by an intrusion of red / orange tinted Quartzite (the red colour comes from iron mixed into the quartzite when it was molten). Time, weather and seawater have eroded the quartzite into a shape that resembles a chunky leg with clearly defined thigh, calf and toes on the 'foot'.
April 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
bedform.org
Nothin better than sunrise on quartzite peaks.
Panorama of sunrise hitting a ridge of white quartzite peaks
September 8, 2026 at 2:20 AM
callanbentley.bsky.social
A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME
The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️
A female geologist has her hand on a low outcrop of quartzite, and that is overlain by ~2m of boulder breccia and then bedded sandstone. Annotated photo showing A female geologist has her hand on a low outcrop of quartzite, and that is overlain by ~2m of boulder breccia and then bedded sandstone.
August 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
rachmarie.bsky.social
My original plan for yesterday was to visit Pipestone National Monument. I had never been there and realized I should go before it gets fucked up in some horrible way (I’m not aware of any plans, but *gestures*). It’s a beautiful and peaceful place.
A stream running over some rocks Quartzite cliffs with trees growing out of them A staircase carved into quartzite stone with a large stone wedged above it Quartzite cliffs
September 13, 2026 at 3:13 PM
theduncanmackay.bsky.social
“Aw, c’mon, they’re just little wooden figures, how scary can they actually b…😳”
The Roos Carr figures, East Yorkshire, c. 600-500BC. Yew & quartzite,
Hull & East Riding Museum.
#FindsFriday
Prehistoric wooden figures with quartz eyes.
May 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
An Teallach horseshoe today.
Nine glittering hours on 400-million-year-old sandstone.
White-tailed eagle riding the thermals; ptarmigan on quartzite; raven gleaming silver.
Blue ridgelines receding; next stop Newfoundland for the eye looking westwards.
But June conditions in April; where is winter?
April 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
callanbentley.bsky.social
#FridayFold
Folded & faulted Grinnell Formation: red argillite+ quartzite Annotated copy of the photo
July 17, 2026 at 4:19 PM
archeaids.bsky.social
A few of my hammerstones that I use for #flintknapping. #archaeology
5 various size quartzite stones
March 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM