Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to Quartz?

:-)

Quartz is indeed quite hard.

Gypsum - as we used to say when drilling oil wells through it - is "soft as shite".
(calcite not much better, calcretes as Nick pointed out is a calcite-cemented soil so may be overall harder)

There are always plenty of possibilities........ (I'm putting my money - for the outcrops at least - on feldspars - just coz of the way they weathered)

C'mon Opportunity! Get drillin'!

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