Quartizite.
Quartzite is a metamorphic rock whose parent rock is sandstone.
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock.
It means the rock that a small piece broke off from. Outside our local library is a boulder quite different from our local sandstone. It is labelled as 'an erratic block of andesitic agglomerate' which broke off 'from the parent rock in Cumbria some millions of years ago'. It was carried about 120 miles by a glacier.
Basalt is an igneous rock and therefore, it does not have a parent rock or protolith. Metamorphic rocks are said to have parent rocks because they form by the deformation of other rocks through heat and pressure.
Sandstone is a Sedimentary rock.
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock.
sedimentary rock
Quartzite is the metamorphic rock for sandstone.
No, sandstone is a sedimentary rock.
by chemicals
Sandstone is sedimentary itself.
at its most basic sandstone is a sedimentary rock.