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A ganister is a hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone or orthoquartzite which is basically used in the manufacture of silica brick typically used to line furnaces and is a type of sedimentary rocks.
England
Unknown
From gan′is-ter i.e a hard, close-grained siliceous stone, often forming the stratum which underlies a coal-seam
Sedimentary Rocks
Durable Rock, Hard Rock
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Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
 
Ignimbrite is a volcanic rock consisting mainly of pumice fragments, formed by the consolidation of material deposited by pyroclastic flows
New Zealand
Patrick Marshall
From Latin ignis fire + imber, imbr- shower of rain, storm cloud + -ite
Igneous Rocks
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Volcanic
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock