rescue v. c.1300, from stem of Old French rescorre protect, keep safe; free, deliver (Modern French recourre), from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + escourre to cast off, discharge, from Latin excutere to shake off, drive away, from ex-out (see ex-) + -cutere, combining form of quatere to shake (see quash).
Rockhound. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed of cemented weathered grains of rock, most abundantly, quartz grains from granite. Quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone, the product of intense pressure and heat which has caused the individual grains to recrystallize into larger crystals which are interlocked.uartzite is the metamorphic product of sandstone. During metamorphism, intense heat and/or pressure cause the quartz grains contained in the sandstone grow and recrystallize, â¦ interlocking together creating Quartzite. 4 people found this useful.
Sandstone has two different kinds of material in it besides the sediment particles: matrix and cement. Matrix is the fine-grained stuff (silt and clay size) that was in the sediment along with the sand whereas cement is the mineral matter, introduced later, that binds the sediment into rock. Sandstone with a lot of matrix is called poorly sorted. If matrix amounts to more than 10 percent of the rock, it is called a wacke (wacky). A well-sorted sandstone (little matrix) with little cement is called an arenite. Another way to look at it is that wacke is dirty and arenite is clean.