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Quartz for all time

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From the tools of Stone Age ancestors to records of Earth’s history, Yang Li and Xian-Hua Li explore how the properties of quartz place it at the heart of human innovation.

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  1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Yang Li

  2. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xian-Hua Li

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Li, Y., Li, XH. Quartz for all time. Nat. Geosci. 16, 112 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01121-y

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