TY - JOUR AU - Torben Ballin PY - 2008/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Quartz as a mineral - its properties, formation and provenance JF - Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports JA - SAIR VL - 26 IS - 0 SE - Sections DO - UR - http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/article/view/1028 AB - This section considers the general properties of quartz, formation of quartz sources, general geological provenance and the varieties of quartz encountered in Scottish lithic assemblages according to geological classifications (rock crystal, milky quartz, very fine-grained or 'greasy' quartz, quite fine-grained quartz and coarse-grained quartz). ER -