quartzite
- n hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals
- A glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye.
- You can see the riotous purple of a jacaranda in full bloom or the quartzite mountains looking sugar-coated in the sunshine.
- When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus.