I’ve been thinking about granite a lot recently; primarily because we have been covering plate tectonics in my AP Environmental Science class. Granite figures prominently in this discussion because ...

Granite is a hard, coarse-grained rock making up most of the earth. It consists chiefly of three minerals: quartz, alkali feldspar (which contain alumina and silica ...

Granite’s story begins deep underground, where molten magma cools over millions of years to create its iconic speckled ...