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Sandstone consists of grains of sand compressed and cemented together by natural cement, e.g. silica, calcite or iron minerals.

Locality - Stanage Edge, near Sheffield, England


© Peter Kennett


Hand specimen

Locality

Rock in use

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Thin section p-polars

Thin section x-polars