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2. Urdaneta Philippines Temple - Wikipedia

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   The temple sits on a 32-acre (13 ha) site, and is constructed with concrete and golden sand granite from China. [15] [20] The site was chosen by church leadership due to being in a central location to 200,000 members. [26]

3. Graniterock - Wikipedia

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   Granite Rock Company was founded on February 14, 1900 by Arthur Roberts, (A.R.) Wilson, and Warren R. Porter.Wilson was born in San Francisco in 1866, graduated from MIT with the class of 1890, and returned to California where he partnered with Kimball G. Easton in a Bay Area street paving and construction firm known as Easton and Wilson.

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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Gravel - Wikipedia

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   Gravel (largest fragment in this photo is about 40 mm (1.6 in)) Gravel (/ ˈ ɡ r æ v əl /) is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.Gravel occurs naturally on Earth as a result of sedimentary and erosive geological processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone.

7. Igneous textures - Wikipedia

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   Examples of phaneritic igneous rocks are gabbro, diorite, and granite. Porphyritic textures develop when conditions during the cooling of magma change relatively quickly. The earlier formed minerals will have formed slowly and remain as large crystals, whereas, sudden cooling causes the rapid crystallization of the remainder of the melt into a ...