Granite Can Be Further Named According To The Types Of Dark Minerals

Granite is an intrusive rock in acidic magmatic rock. This is the most common type of rock in this category. Most of it is light flesh red, light gray, and off-white. Medium-coarse, fine-grained structure, block structure. There are also patchy structures, spherical structures, gneiss-like structures and so on. The main minerals of granite are quartz, potash feldspar and acid plagioclase, and the secondary minerals are biotite, hornblende, and sometimes a small amount of pyroxene. The content of potash feldspar is generally more than that of plagioclase. The relationship between the two contents is often that potash feldspar accounts for two-thirds of the total feldspar, plagioclase occupies one-third, and potash feldspar is more in granite. It is light flesh red, but also gray and gray. Off-white potash feldspar and plagioclase are often difficult to distinguish on hand specimens. At this time, we must carefully observe the double crystal characteristics of these two feldspars, because plagioclase has double crystals. When rotating the hand specimens, we can see that there are regular light and dark aggregates on the plagioclase crystals. It is a cassette double crystal, which appears as two halves of crystals with different degrees of brightness.

Granite can be further named according to the types of dark minerals. For example, dark minerals are mainly biotite, which can be called biotite granite, which is a common type of granite. If the content of biotite and muscovite are close to equal, it can be called dimica granite. If the dark mineral is mainly hornblende, it is called hornblende granite. If the dark mineral is mainly pyroxene, it is called pyroxene. Stone granite, which contains almost no dark minerals, can be called Baigangite.