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Granite is a very hard, granular, crystalline igneous rock which consists mainly of quartz, mica, and feldspar and is often used as building stone
From Italian granito, which means grained rock, from grano grain, and from Latin granum
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
A sedimentary rock, deposit of a submarine turbidity currents and are composed of layered particles
From Medieval Latin turbiditas, from Latin turbidus (turbid). Turbidity current is from 1939
Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock