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This micrograph colorfully illustrates deformed quartz grains in a well-cemented quartz sandstone from the Cambrian Antietam Formation, a prominent geologic unit in the Blue Ridge geologic province. Many of the individual sand grains are elongated (~horizontal orientation), but not recrystallized. Photo taken in cross polarized light with the gypsum plate inserted.