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  2. Granite Mountain (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    Granite Mountain is a solid dome, also known as a bornhardt, of pink granite (pink granite is also known as Sunset Red) rising over 860 feet one mile west of Marble Falls, Texas. Since quarry operations began in the late 19th century, the distinctive pink-red colored rock has been used in the construction of the Texas State Capitol in Austin ...

  3. Enchanted Rock - Wikipedia

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    Enchanted Rock is a pink granite mountain located in the Llano Uplift about 17 miles (27 km) north of Fredericksburg, Texas and 24 miles (39 km) south of Llano, Texas, United States. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, which includes Enchanted Rock and surrounding land, spans the border between Gillespie and Llano counties, south of the Llano ...

  4. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.

  5. Geology of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Permian rocks are the best-known of the Texas Paleozoic. They are widespread in north Texas, where their characteristic red beds are spectacularly exposed in Palo Duro Canyon. The strata are also oil-rich where buried in west Texas, such as in the Midland and Odessa region. This crude oil-rich area is known as the Permian Basin.

  6. Exfoliation joint - Wikipedia

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    Exfoliation joints in granite at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Texas, US. Detached blocks have slid along the steeply-dipping joint plane. Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock, often leading to the erosion of concentric slabs.

  7. List of rock types - Wikipedia

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    Unakite – Multicoloured metamorphic rock – An altered granite; Variolite – Igneous rocks which contain varioles; Vogesite – Type of ultrapotassic igneous rock – A variety of lamprophyre; Wad (mineral) – Porous secondary manganese oxyhydroxide – A rock rich in manganese oxide or manganese hydroxide

  8. List of rock formations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spider Rock Pinnacle Balanced Rock The West and East Mitten Buttes Window Rock. Antelope Canyon; Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Spider Rock; Capitol Butte; Cathedral Rock, Red Rock State Park, Sedona; Cathedral Rock (Coconino County, Arizona) Chaistla Butte; Chiricahua National Monument. Big Balanced Rock; Duck on a Rock; Mushroom Rock ...

  9. List of individual rocks - Wikipedia

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    Granite boulder with a bronze plaque commemorating the Battle of Pell's Point. Supposed spot where John Glover stood during the battle. Gotobiki-iwa: Kamikura Shrine, Shingū, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan: Sacred granite rock Great Scott: Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility, Houston, Texas, United States: Basalt Moon rock collected by Apollo 15 ...