It forms from the slow crystallization of magma below earth s surface.
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Granite ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Students of granites classify them in three or four categories.
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Granite is a light colored igneous rock with grains large enough to be visible with the unaided eye.
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Granites can be predominantly white pink or gray in color depending on their mineralogy the word granite comes from the latin granum a grain in reference to the coarse grained structure of such a completely crystalline rock.
M type mantle granites are rarer and are thought to have evolved directly from deeper melts in the mantle.
Granite is composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with minor amounts of mica amphiboles and other minerals this mineral composition usually gives granite a red pink gray or white color with dark mineral.
What granite means.
Granite rocks can be very old.
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I type igneous granites appear to arise from the melting of preexisting igneous rocks s type sedimentary granites from melted sedimentary rocks or their metamorphic equivalents in both cases.