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== == Quartz is actually a silicate mineral that appears in metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rocks.

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Quartz starts out as an igneous rock, but that rock can weather, it can have little pieces broken off by various processes, and those pieces can then wash away in the rain and wind up in some body of water as sediment.

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Quartz is native to Igneous rock, erosion of Igneous rock produces sediment which can become Sedimentary rock. Quartz that eroded from Igneous rock becomes part of the sediment that can become Sedimentary rock.

Water can dissolve quartz out of hot Igneous rock and this quartz can recrystallize when the hot water cools while passing through nearby Sedimentary (or other) rocks.

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How the mineral quartz could be in an igneous and in sedimentary rock?

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What group of rock does quartz belong to?

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How can the mineral quartz be an igneous rock?

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