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Across
  1. 2. Used extensively in road and building construction
  2. 3. Weathered rock and organic matter
  3. 6. The era often known as the Age of repliles
  4. 7. Fe rich red coloured garnet
  5. 10. A type of stereonet used for structural geology
  6. 11. Organisms preserved in sedimentary rocks
  7. 12. Oldest dated mineral on earth
  8. 13. Sky appears blue due to which type of scattering
  9. 14. The national gemstone of Australia
  10. 15. Used to observe the interference figures
  11. 17. Khetri mines are famous for this mineral
Down
  1. 1. A tool to measure motion of ground
  2. 4. Geological Age of coal found in north east India
  3. 5. A large, fan-shaped pile of sediment usually formed where a stream emerges from anarrow canyon onto a flat plain.
  4. 8. Mineral group including aldalusite and kyanite
  5. 9. A type of igneous rock that is a volcanic glass and forms when lava cools quickly
  6. 10. A metamorphic rock that can be used to make chalk boards
  7. 16. Two or more minerals together