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Purple sandstone


  The rock is medium-fine grained purplish-red sandstone, which formed in the Silurian period about 400 million years ago. It is mainly composed of quartz and feldspar. As it contains Fe3+, it is purplish-red, which indicates the sandstone formed in oxidizing conditions.




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