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Granite

Igneous Rocks

A coarse-grained igneous rock that cooled slowly deep underground, giving it visible interlocking crystals of quartz and feldspar. It forms the core of most continents and is prized as a building stone for its hardness and polish. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Kind
Rock 2
Formation Class
Igneous, intrusive (plutonic) 1
Chemical Formula
No single fixed formula; granite is a mixture of minerals. Its worldwide average bulk composition, based on 2485 analyses, is approximately 72.04 percent SiO2 by mass, with the balance made up of smaller amounts of Al2O3, Fe2O3, FeO, CaO, Na2O, K2O and other oxides. 1
Colour
Colourless or White 3
Colour
Grey or Black 3
Colour
Red or Pink 3
Lustre
Vitreous 3
Rarity
Abundant 3
Classification
Classification
Igneous Rock 1
Use
Building and Construction 1
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1. Granite (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, mica and plagioclase.
  • Article text
    A worldwide average of the chemical composition of granite, by mass percent, based on 2485 analyses: The medium-grained equivalent of granite is microgranite.
  • Lead section
    Granite (, GRAN-it or, GRAN-eye-t) is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, mica and plagioclase.
  • Granite, live entity-description
    prized as a building stone for its hardness and polish
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2. Rock, Geology (Wikipedia)
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3. Geology.com: Granite
Geology.com
  • Description
    Introductory geology textbooks report that granite is the most abundant rock in the continental crust.
  • Article text, rarity
    Granite in the Continental Crust Introductory geology textbooks report that granite is the most abundant rock in the continental crust.
  • Article text, colour-category
    This mineral composition usually gives granite a red, pink, gray, or white color with dark mineral grains visible throughout the rock .
  • Article text, lustre
    The surfaces of these sheets will have a highly reflective vitreous luster.
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Wikidata: Granite
Wikidata Q41177
Rhyolite (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Rhyolite, Lead section
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It is the extrusive equivalent of granite.
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Wikipedia: Sigiriya - Wikipedia
Associated With: Sigiriya Rock, Lead paragraph
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It is a site of historical and archaeological significance that is dominated by a massive column of granite approximately 180 m (590 ft) high.
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Sugarloaf Mountain (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Lead paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Lead paragraph
The mountain is one of several monolithic granite and quartz mountains that rise straight from the water's edge around Rio de Janeiro.
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Pedra da Gávea (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Pedra da Gavea, Lead paragraph
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Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is 844 metres (2,769 ft), making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean.
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Wikipedia: Stawamus Chief, Wikipedia
  • Associated With: Stawamus Chief, Lead paragraph
    It is one of the largest granite monoliths in the world.
  • Associated With: Stawamus Chief, Article text, rock Granite
    The Chief is part of a medium-sized pluton of a granitic rock (granodiorite) that was initially formed in the early Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) by the slow cooling and solidification of molten magma deep below the surface of the Earth.
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Wikipedia: Spitzkoppe, Wikipedia
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The Spitzkoppe (from German for "pointed dome"; also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia") is a group of bald granite peaks or inselbergs located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia.
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Enchanted Rock (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Enchanted Rock, Lead paragraph
    Enchanted Rock is a pink granite mountain located in the Llano Uplift about 17 miles (27 km) north of Fredericksburg, Texas and 24 miles (39 km) south of Llano, Texas, United States.
  • Associated With: Enchanted Rock, Article text, rock Granite
    The rock is actually only the visible above-ground portion of a segmented ridge, the surface expression of a large igneous batholith, called the Town Mountain Granite, of middle Precambrian (1,082 ± 6 million years ago) material that intruded into earlier metamorphic schist, called the Packsaddle Schist.
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Wadi Rum (Wikipedia)
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Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم Wādī Ramm, also Wādī al-Ramm, known also as the Valley of the Moon or Red mountains (Arabic: وادي القمر, romanized: Wādī al-Qamar), is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia and about 60 km (37 mi) to the east of the city of Aqaba.
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Matobo National Park (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Matobo Hills, Lead paragraph
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The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe.
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Domboshava (Wikipedia)
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It is located in an area of granite hills about 27 km (17 mi) north of Harare and is named after the large granite hills.
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Vedauwoo (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Vedauwoo, Lead paragraph
    Vedauwoo () is an area of rocky outcrops (Sherman Granite) located in southeastern Wyoming, United States, north of Interstate 80, between Laramie and Cheyenne.
  • Associated With: Vedauwoo, Lead, rock Granite
    Vedauwoo () is an area of rocky outcrops (Sherman Granite) located in southeastern Wyoming, United States, north of Interstate 80, between Laramie and Cheyenne.
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Cheesewring (Wikipedia)
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It is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite slabs formed by weathering.
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Haytor (Wikipedia)
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Haytor, also known as Haytor Rocks, Hay Tor, or occasionally Hey Tor, is a granite tor on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.
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Split Apple Rock (Wikipedia)
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Made of granite from the cretaceous, it is in the shape of an apple which has been cut in half.
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Lembert Dome (Wikipedia)
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Lembert Dome is a granite dome rock formation in Yosemite National Park in the US state of California.
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Bowerman's Nose (Wikipedia)
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Bowerman's Nose is a stack of weathered granite on Dartmoor, Devon, England.
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Independence Rock (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Independence Rock, Lead paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Independence Rock, Lead paragraph
Independence Rock is a large granite rock, approximately 130 feet (40 m) high, 1,900 feet (580 m) long, and 850 feet (260 m) wide, which is in southwestern Natrona County, Wyoming, United States, along Wyoming Highway 220.
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Moro Rock (Wikipedia)
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Moro Rock is a granite dome rock formation in Sequoia National Park, California, United States.
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Cerros de Mavecure (Wikipedia)
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They are made of granite rock and can only be accessed by river.
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Krishna's Butterball (Wikipedia)
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Krishna's Butterball (also known as Vaan Irai Kal and Krishna's Gigantic Butterball) is a gigantic balancing rock, a granite boulder resting on a short incline in the historical coastal resort town of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu state, India.
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Kokerbin Rock (Wikipedia)
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Kokerbin Rock, also known as Kokerbin Hill, is a granite rock formation located within Kokerbin Nature Reserve in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
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You Yangs (Wikipedia)
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The You Yangs are a series of granite ridges that rise up to 343 m (1,125 ft) above the flat and low-lying Werribee Plain in southern Victoria, Australia, approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) due west of the rural town of Little River, 55 km (34 mi) southwest of Melbourne CBD and 22 km (14 mi) north of Geelong.
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Mount Namuli (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mount Namuli, Lead paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Mount Namuli, Lead paragraph
The Namuli massif consists of a level plateau with the granite dome of Mount Namuli above.
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Panola Mountain (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Panola Mountain, Lead paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Panola Mountain, Lead paragraph
Panola Mountain is a 100-acre (40 ha) granite monadnock in Rockdale County, Georgia.
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Boyagin Rock (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Associated With: Boyagin Rock, Lead paragraph
The Boyagin Rock outcrop rises 50 m (160 ft) above the surrounding land and is an crestal area of a granite inselberg within the geological Yilgarn craton framework.
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Yapahuwa (Wikipedia)
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The citadel of Yapahuwa lying midway between Kurunagala and Anuradhapura was built around a huge granite rock rising abruptly almost a hundred meters above the surrounding lowlands.
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Ben Loyal (Wikipedia)
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Ben Loyal is composed chiefly of granite, specifically syenite, and has a distinctive shape due to the four rocky peaks, the highest of which is called An Caisteal.
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Murphy's Haystacks (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Murphy's Haystacks, Lead paragraph
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They are of a tumulus form of weathered granite outcrop.
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Bounty Islands (Wikipedia)
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The Bounty Islands (Māori: Moutere Hauriri; "Island of angry wind") are a small group of uninhabited granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of around 50 ha (120 acres) in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Thimble Islands (Wikipedia)
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The archipelago of islands made up of pink Stony Creek granite bedrock were once the tops of hills prior to the last ice age.
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Lavezzi archipelago (Wikipedia)
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The Archipelago of Lavezzi (French: Îles Lavezzi; Corsican: Isuli Lavezzi; Italian: Isole di Lavezzi) is a collection of small granite islands and reefs in the Strait of Bonifacio that separates Corsica from Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Scratch My Arse Rock (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Associated With: Scratch My Arse Rock, Lead paragraph
Geologically, Scratch My Arse Rock is a plateau and composed of granite.
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Karimata Islands (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Karimata Islands, Lead paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Karimata Islands, Lead paragraph
The mountain is composed of granite.
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Kent Group (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Kent Group, Lead paragraph
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The Kent Group are a grouping of six granite islands located in Bass Strait, north-west of the Furneaux Group in Tasmania, Australia.
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Bode Gorge (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Bode Gorge, Lead paragraph
    At the Bode Gorge, the River Bode, which rises on the highest mountain in the Harz, the Brocken, has cut deeply into the hard Ramberg granite rock.
  • Associated With: Bode Gorge, Lead, rock Granite
    At the Bode Gorge, the River Bode, which rises on the highest mountain in the Harz, the Brocken, has cut deeply into the hard Ramberg granite rock.
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Cochamo Valley (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Cochamó Valley, Lead paragraph
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Like Yosemite, hikers and rock climbers from around the world come for the valley's several 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) granite walls.
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Altai Mountains (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Altai Mountains, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Altai Mountains, Article text, rock Granite
Rock types in the mountains are typically granites and metamorphic schists, and some are highly sheared near to fault zones.
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Wikipedia: Bornhardt
WikipediaAssociated With: Bornhardt, Lead, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Bornhardt, Lead, rock Granite
Bornhardts are commonly composed of igneous rocks, often granites, but examples of gneiss, quartzite and arkose bornhardts exist.
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El Capitan (Wikipedia)
Associated With: El Capitan, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: El Capitan, Article text, rock Granite
A separate intrusion of igneous rock, the Taft Granite, forms the uppermost portions of the cliff face.
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Granite dome (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Granite Dome, Lead, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Granite Dome, Lead, rock Granite
Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface.
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Huascarán (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Huascaran, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Huascaran, Article text, rock Granite
The core of Huascarán, like much of the Cordillera Blanca, consists of Cenozoic-age granite.
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Illimani (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Illimani, Lead, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Illimani, Lead, rock Granite
Its composition is of metamorphic rock and intrusive granites.
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Isles of Scilly (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Isles of Scilly, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Isles of Scilly, Article text, rock Granite
All the islands of Scilly are all composed of granite rock of Early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith.
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Kinmen (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Kinmen, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Kinmen, Article text, rock Granite
Kinmen, much like the surrounding Chinese mainland, is predominantly composed of Cretaceous aged granite, with lesser amounts of Eocene-Oligocene sandstone, Miocene basalt and Pleistocene-Holocene conglomerate.
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Matsu Islands (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Matsu Islands, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Matsu Islands, Article text, rock Granite
The islands are predominantly composed of Jurassic and Cretaceous intrusive (emplaced ≈160 Ma, ≈130 Ma and ≈94 Ma) granite and diabase.
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Wikipedia: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Wikipedia
Associated With: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Lead, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Lead, rock Granite
The region's geology is primarily granites and gneisses, and glacial tills dot the bedrock landscape, with loose gravel covering the ground.
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Mount Cameroon (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mount Cameroon, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Mount Cameroon, Article text, rock Granite
It sits on a horst of Precambrian granite and gneiss overlain by Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments.
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Mount Kinabalu (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mount Kinabalu, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Mount Kinabalu, Article text, rock Granite
As these glaciers flowed down its slopes, they scoured the surface of Mount Kinabalu in the process and creating the 1,800-metre-deep (5,900 ft) Low's Gully (named after Hugh Low) on its north side. Its granitic composition and the glacial formative processes are readily apparent when viewing its craggy, rocky peaks.
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Pedra da Galinha Choca (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Pedra da Galinha Choca, Lead, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Pedra da Galinha Choca, Lead, rock Granite
It consists of inselberg diorites and granites, which are igneous rocks, i.e., formed from cooling magma.
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Pyrenees (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Pyrenees, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Pyrenees, Article text, rock Granite
The massive and unworn character of the chain comes from its abundance of granite, which is particularly resistant to erosion, as well as weak glacial development.
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São Francisco Craton (Wikipedia)
Associated With: São Francisco Craton, Lead, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: São Francisco Craton, Lead, rock Granite
The belts are characterized by sedimentary basins and passive continental margins containing granite intrusions.
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Shetland (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Shetland, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Shetland, Article text, rock Granite
There are also Old Red Sandstone deposits and granite intrusions.
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Sniezne Kotly (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Śnieżne Kotły, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Śnieżne Kotły, Article text, rock Granite
They were formed during the last phase of the glacial period and consist predominantly of granite.
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St Kilda, Scotland (Wikipedia)
Associated With: St Kilda, Scotland, Article text, rock Granite
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The islands are composed of Tertiary igneous formations of granites and gabbro, heavily weathered by the elements.
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Stone Mountain (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Stone Mountain, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Stone Mountain, Article text, rock Granite
Embedded in the granite are xenoliths or pieces of foreign rocks entrained in the magma. The granite intruded into the metamorphic rocks of the Piedmont region during the last stages of the Alleghenian Orogeny, which was the time when North America and North Africa collided.
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Surin Islands (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Surin Islands, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Surin Islands, Article text, rock Granite
The predominant composition of these islands and seamounts is intrusive granitoids, a type of igneous rock.
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Table Mountain (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Table Mountain, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Table Mountain, Article text, rock Granite
The Graafwater rocks rest on the basement consisting of Cape Granite.
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Torghatten (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Torghatten, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Torghatten, Article text, rock Granite
The mountain consists of foliated granite of Proterozoic age, with the foliation (layered structure of the rock) oriented almost vertically, creating natural weakness zones that have facilitated erosion processes.
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Wave Rock (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Wave Rock, Article text, rock Granite
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The initial step in the development of Hyden Rock was the subsurface alteration by weathering of granite bedrock beneath a lateritised land surface during the Cretaceous Period between 100 and 130 million years ago.
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Wiesental, Black Forest (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Wiesental, Black Forest, Article text, rock Granite
Quote, Associated With: Wiesental, Black Forest, Article text, rock Granite
The back part of the valley is mainly made of Gneiss and Granite.
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Paiju Peak (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Paiju Peak, Infobox: rock
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Granite
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Blue Ridge Mountains (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Blue Ridge Mountains, Infobox: geology
Quote, Associated With: Blue Ridge Mountains, Infobox: geology
granite, gneiss, limestone
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Bektauata (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Bektauata, Infobox: geology
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Granite
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Amah Rock (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Amah Rock, Infobox: geology
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Granite
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Wikipedia: Batholith
WikipediaAssociated With: Batholith, Lead section
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Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).
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