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Quartzite.

And this slide is in here just to show that though I may present a relatively coherent story of the western edge of America, there are still things that we do not understand. These rocks are a laterally extensive Paleozoic quartzite and we just don't understand where they were deposited. All the deformation and accretion leave the rock record in a state where deciphering what happened when is never easy.