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2. Color index (geology) - Wikipedia

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   Based on their color index, rocks can be classified as melanocratic (higher color index), leucocratic (lower color index), or mesocratic (middle color index), as well as hololeucocratic and holomelanocratic (extremes to either side). [1] For example, leucocratic granite would be brighter and have a lower color index than regular granite. [1]

3. Dimension stone - Wikipedia

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   Large blocks of granite dimension stone being loaded at Teignmouth in Devon, southern England, in 1827. Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and finished (e.g., trimmed, cut, drilled or ground) to specific sizes or shapes. Color, texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are also normal requirements ...

4. Decomposed granite - Wikipedia

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   Decomposed granite is a kind of granite rock that is weathered to the point that the parent material readily fractures into smaller pieces of weaker rock. Further weathering yields material that easily crumbles into mixtures of gravel -sized particles known as grus that further may break down to produce a mixture of clay and silica sand or silt ...

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6. Granite - Wikipedia

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   Granite (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground. It is common in the continental crust of Earth, where it is found in igneous ...

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