Granite

granite -- Highly felsic igneous plutonic rock, typically light in color; rough plutonic equivalent of rhyolite. Granite is actually quite rare in the U.S.; often the term is applied to any quartz-bearing plutonic rock.

granite Light colored, coarse grained, intrusive igneous rock characterized by the minerals orthoclase and quartz with lesser amounts of plagioclase feldspar and iron-magnesium minerals. Underlies large sections of the continents.

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A glassy igneous rock with a composition similar to granite. The glassy texture is a result of cooling so fast that mineral lattices were not developed.
Oil Field:
The geographic area above an underground accumulation of oil and natural gas.

Milestones were originally stone (granite or marble or whatever local stone was available) obelisks and later concrete posts.

Atomic theory, for example, implies that a granite boulder which appears as heavy, hard, solid, grey, etc.

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Batholith:
A very large body of igneous rock, usually granite, that has been exposed by erosion of the overlying rock.

7 g/cm³ at the surface (rock density of granite, limestone etc. - see regional geology) up to approximately 15 within the inner core. Modern seismology yields a value of 16 g/cm³ (iron or hydrogen) at the center of the earth.

In fact, they are so small that you would never notice them in everyday life. You'd never feel "attracted" toward a huge mountain of granite, or feel lighter over the middle of the ocean surrounded by water.

maize, granite, lake), ordinal (ranking, e.g., class 1, class 2, class 3, and so on), or scalar (value, e.g., water depth, elevation, erosion rate, and so on).

See also: Surface, Area, Region, Feature, Sediment