Common Granite
To get it from the mine, you use a pickaxe. To cut it into smaller pieces, you use a chisel on a larger piece of granite. Or, if you have a chisel in your toolbelt, just click on the piece of granite.
Granite typically weathers and erodes into smaller pieces and ultimately changes into sedimentary rock, often forming sandstone or clay minerals through the process of sedimentation and lithification.
One method to separate wood chips and pieces of granite rock is by using a sieve. The sieve will allow the smaller wood chips to pass through while retaining the larger pieces of granite rock. Another method is to use a process called flotation, where the wood chips can be floated on water and separated from the heavier pieces of granite rock.
It is the amount of surface of a solute that is exposed to the solvent. The smaller the pieces of the solute are, the larger the surface area that is exposed to the solvent.
If the granite becomes exposed to the surface, it will weather. This means that the granite will be broken into successively smaller and smaller pieces. At some point, the particles are transported via wind or water to a place of deposition such as a large body of water. These particles, known as sediment, are eventually compacted by the weight of additional sediments, and undergo a process of lithification where water and air is squeezed out and replaced by a cementing mineral. The sediments of granite particles have now become a sedimentary rock, probably shale, sandstone, breccia, or conglomerate.
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Granite becomes exposed, is weathered into small particles, erodes from transportation by water, ice, wind, and gravity, is deposited in still waters or in dunes, and is compressed and cemented into sedimentary rock. This is one example of a path it could take in the rock cycle. There are others.
A quartz statue can become sand through weathering, erosion, and natural processes over time. As the statue is exposed to the elements such as wind, rain, and temperature changes, it can break down into smaller pieces, eventually turning into sand.
Pieces of gneiss, granite, and basalt can be found in the same conglomerate rock through a process known as sedimentary mixing. This occurs when rocks of different types are broken down into smaller fragments and then carried by water or wind to a new location where they become cemented together in a conglomerate.
The granite would be older because it had to form first in order for the sandstone to contain pieces of it. The sandstone would have formed later on top of the granite layer.
It's a cumulative effect, the surface area difference of the large vs small pieces increases as melt does. Besides over time, the smaller pieces of ice have a greater surface area exposed to the liquid associated with the large pieces, smaller pieces have a larger surface area exposed as a ratio to their overall mass as time goes on.