“The thin mantle of soil and quartzitic gravel is vegetated with ubiquitous sagebrush typical of the high desert in northeastern Nevada.”

“The quartzitic horizons change along strike into carbonaceous shale and sericite-chlorite schist.”

“This indurated metamorphic rock and its tectonic fabrics are cut across by several centimetre-scale cracks infilled by undeformed quartzitic matrix.”

“The matrix varies in composition from black shale to carbonate mudstone and quartzose siltstone.”

“Note the rounded boulders in the fluvial sediments, and the mixing of gypsiferous and quartzose lithologies at places on the outcrop.”

“The section is dominated by quartzose grey and pink sandstone, interbedded with red-orange mudstones.”

“We sit and contemplate the high domed peak of Errigal, its white quartzy screes making it look snowy, beautiful, impossible.”

“That's why the best words in scrabble are ones like quartzy, musquashes or zyxomma.”

“Quartzy helps with this by letting users run a proximity-based query that lets them see if anyone in their city happens to have what they need.”