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Nearby Sign
Photographer: Keith L
Taken: June 8, 2008
Caption: Nearby Sign
Additional Description: The dense hard rock forming Rib Mountain is called quartzite. It was originally loose sand but was changed first to sandstone by cementing of the sand grains and then to quartzite by Earth movements and fluids which compressed and hardened the rock.
Submitted: February 22, 2009, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p53835
File Size: 0.681 Megabytes

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