Quartz
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- Quartz (SiO2).
- A silicate crystal named by the Polish. Quartz and feldspar make up most of Earth’s continental crust.
- Used in the creation of fabricator-aligned glass and ultra-long-term computer memory storage lasting billions of years.
- Typically found as phenocrysts formed from cooling lava - but some local deposits have a telltale bioplastic matrix.
- Hypothesis: a local coral gathers dissolved silica to grow quartz deposits.
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