Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet GRANITE

Definition av GRANITE

1. granit

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• To the northwest is the Karre Mountains (also known as Yade Massif), a granite plateau with an altitude of.
• The names of 41 people are inscribed on the granite fountain as martyrs who were killed in the civil rights movement.
• Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice.
• The landscape consists of moorland capped with many exposed granite hilltops known as tors, providing habitats for wildlife.
• The common materials of masonry construction are bricks and building stone, rocks such as marble, granite, and limestone, cast stone, concrete blocks, glass blocks, and adobe.
• New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its nickname, "The Granite State", refers to its extensive granite formations and quarries.
• Sylvia Olive Pleadwell Sayer, Lady Sayer (6 March 1904 – 4 January 2000), was a passionate conservationist and environmental campaigner on behalf of Dartmoor, an area of mostly granite moorland in Devon in the south-west of England.
• Most pegmatites are composed of quartz, feldspar, and mica, having a similar silicic composition to granite.
• The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the entire Solar System, and has made important contributions to the understanding of a number of processes including mantle convection, the formation of planets and the origins of granite and basalt.
• Hornblende is most often confused with the pyroxene series and biotite mica, which are also dark minerals found in granite and charnockite.
• Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%).
• Historical centre of the town, built in grey granite blocks (mainly 18th century); particularly Corso Matteotti, via Roma (Carrera Longa, Lu Runzatu, Lu Pultali), Piazza d'Italia (Piazza di l'Ara), Parco delle Rimembranze, Fonte Nuova (Funtana Noa) and Parco di San Lorenzo, via Mannu (ex via dei Nobili or dei Cavalieri).
• The landscape is characterised by granite rocks and harsh mountains that, even if not particularly high, have constituted for millennia a barrier between this region and the nearby territories of Baronie and Montalbo.
• Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, groves of giant sequoia, lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological diversity.
• Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).
• A pleochroic halo, or radiohalo, is a microscopic, spherical shell of discolouration (pleochroism) within minerals such as biotite that occurs in granite and other igneous rocks.
• The park contains the tallest mountain on the Atlantic Coast of the United States (Cadillac Mountain), exposed granite domes, glacial erratics, U-shaped valleys, and cobble beaches.
• Along the way, it traverses granite boulder formations, including a moss-covered arch adorned with ferns and orchids.
• Erosion has weathered the granite and rounded granite boulders can be seen in some areas of the park.
• Features of the park include its red and pink granite formations and a series of jagged granite peaks in a line, called "The Hazards".

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