Materials

Granite

Igneous Rock

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Earth and Environment Atlas. "Granite." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/granite.

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Earth and Environment Atlas. (n.d.). Granite. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/granite

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@misc{earthandenvironmentatlas-granite,
  author = {Earth and Environment Atlas},
  title = {Granite},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/granite},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Kind

Rock 1

Formation Class

Igneous, intrusive (plutonic) 2

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Geology

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is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, mica and plagioclase.

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