1. As small clay minerals that are deposited in lakes and the sea2. Quartz does not weather and so it keeps the granite from weathering3. It ends up as sand in rivers, dunes, and beaches4. It is converted into feldspar and weathers into clays
Kelloggs96 is correct. You could simply look at the wiki article. A quartz clock mechanism is put to a potential and vibrates at a frequency. There are very fast quartz clocks (greater than 4MHz) and very slow ones that work in watches.
All I know is the the quartz is charged with a electrical current and makes it vibrate. The vibration is calculated in Hertz and is a very predictable vibration. The clock calculates the time by the number of vibrations dunno if im exactly right but that is what I heard
