In reference to the coarse grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock the word granite comes from the latin granum a grain.
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Granite is a light colored igneous rock with grains large enough to be visible with the unaided eye.
Granite coarse or medium grained intrusive igneous rock that is rich in quartz and feldspar.
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It forms from the slow crystallization of magma below earth s surface.
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Granite is a common type of granular and phaneritic felsic intrusive igneous rock.
Granite is composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with minor amounts of mica amphiboles and other minerals.
It is plutonic in origin implying that it was formed deep underground.
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Granites depending on their mineralogy can be predominantly white pink or gray in colour.
This rock is primarily composed of interlocking crystals of alkali feldspar 65 by volume quartz 20 by volume mica amphiboles and other minerals.