Mount Rushmore National Memorial has the carvings of four US Presidents carved out of granite. The four presidents are: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
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it is South Dakota granite. i belive it is granite.
This sounds like the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain, a knob of granitic migmatite surrounded by schists and slates. It is geologically similar to nearby Mount Rushmore. These "mountains" stand above their surroundings because they are more resistant to erosion than the metamorphic rocks surrounding them.
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Mount Rushmore is carved out of the granite face of the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore is carved out of the granite face of the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Crazy Horse was a Sioux chief and refused to be photographed.
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Well, Mount Rushmore is the mountain; that the landmark Borglum carved shares the name is perhaps shorthand. The Black Hills is the geologic range. It is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, close to the town of Keystone, and is carved into the northwest face of Harney Peak.
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Mt. Rushmore was carved and can be found in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Harney Peak granite is found in the Black Hills in western South Dakota. Harney Peak granite is famous because of two massive rock carvings - Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Granite is also found in 11 quarries near Milbank, South Dakota in Grant County.
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Yes, there are several quarries in South Dakota. Dakota Granite Company operates five quarries, all located in Grant County, South Dakota.
Mount Rushmore is carved into Mount Rushmore. It is in the Black Hills of South Dakota.