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Flint

Sedimentary Rocks

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Flint, occasionally called flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs within chalk or marly limestone. Historically it was widely used to make stone tools and to start fires.

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Rock 1
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Sedimentary (a cryptocrystalline form of quartz occurring as nodules within chalk or marly limestone) 1
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Chalk, Materials

Host rock: flint occurs as nodules within chalk.

Source Flint (Wikipedia)
Limestone, Materials

Host rock: flint occurs as nodules within marly limestone.

Source Flint (Wikipedia)

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Geology, Disciplines
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1. Flint (Wikipedia)
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a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
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