01 n. A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs f…
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A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.(Geol.)
Phrases & compounds
Gneissoid granite —
granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement.
Graphic granite —
granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters.
Porphyritic granite —
granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals.
Hornblende granite —
granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica.
Granite ware —
A kind of stoneware.