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What minerals are in granite but not gabbro?
Granite contains Quartz and Plagioclase Feldspar and Gabbro does not have neither if these minerals in it.
What minerals determine the color of granite?
The color and type of feldspar minerals largely determine the color of a particular granite.
Why is the rock granite a good example for the phrase minerals are the building blocks of rocks?
Granite contains many minerals and minerals are the 'true' building blocks of rocks
How are the minerals in granite described?
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Which are not minerals?
Water and air are not minerals; granite, porphyry, clay, pumice are rocks, not minerals.
What does granite contains?
Granite contains several types of minerals. They include quartz, calcite, micas, and tourmaline. Granite can also have trolite and silicate minerals.
Is granite homogeneous?
No. If you look at granite you can see that there are distinct crystals of diferent minerals. Thus, granite is heterogeneous.
Is granite a carbonate rock?
Calcite can be found in some types of granite. Granite is normally composed of the minerals feldspar, quartz, and biotite.
What minerals are commonly present in granite?
Quartz, Feldspar (or Felspar) and Mica. Other minerals may be present but all of the above three must be therefor a Granite.
What is lighter gabbro or granite?
Granite is lighter because its composed of felsic minerals while gabbro is made up of dark ferromagnesian minerals.
What does granite form from?
In the volcano/magma chamber, different minerals that make up granite, (feldspar, quartz, etc.) mix to form grainy, large crystals of the different minerals. That is how granite is formed.
What minerals does the rock granite always contain?
granite has its composition _ quartz+alkali feldspar
