[DOC] [TLE] New Hampshire State Rock: Granite [PAR] Granite was adopted as New Hampshire state rock on May 31, 1985. Among the 
most popular, the hardest, and the oldest of geosymbols, granite is an ... zircons, 
augite, sphene and apatite; Uses: Building material, decorative counter tops,... [DOC] [TLE] Granite State Rock | State Symbols USA [PAR] North Carolina designated granite ("the noble rock") as the official state rock in 
1979. High quality North Carolina granite is used as a building material for both... [DOC] [TLE] New Hampshire State Rock, Granite, from NETSTATE.COM [PAR] Apr 21, 2015 ... This page offers information about the New Hampshire State Rock, Granite, and 
its adoption as the official Rock. ... this book describes and illustrates the most 
common and interesting rocks and minerals, from simple sandstone to exotic 
gems. ... No copyright is claimed on non-original or licensed material. [DOC] [TLE] Granite: Igneous Rock - Pictures, Definition & More - Geology.com [PAR] Granite is an intrusive igneous rock that has many uses in building ... South 
Dakota; Pike's Peak, Colorado; and White Mountains, New Hampshire. Rock kit  
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materials. ... A simple definition is used in introductory courses; a more precise 
definition... [DOC] [TLE] Swenson Granite Works | About Us | A Rock-Solid Legacy [PAR] But historians recognize John Swenson as someone pivotal in the state's long 
and varied ... said Donna Belle-Garvin of the New Hampshire Historical Society. 
.... was fabrication of monuments, with some steps, base courses and 
mausoleums. ... of steel and concrete as popular building materials, demand for 
granite waned. [DOC] [TLE] Flint - Wikipedia [PAR] Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, 
categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in 
sedimentary rocks, such as chalks ... of chert which occurs in chalk or marly 
limestone. Similarly, "common chert" (sometimes referred to simply as "chert") 
occurs in limestone. [DOC] [TLE] chapter i: introduction of granite as a building stone into new england [PAR] It was built chiefly of the common rocks found in the native soil of the peninsula ... 
The first style was the old English bond, which consisted of courses of bricks laid 
.... history of stone masonry and the use of granite as a building material in 
Boston and ..... and later remodelled the State Capitol at Concord, New 
Hampshire. [DOC] [TLE] 15.pdf [PAR] A great variety of stone has been used in the new capitol building; the mass is ... 
The Episcopal church, State street, is trimmed with Hudson River sandstone from 
... only by the Allegheny river, and the sources of their building materials are .... of 
Deacon John Phillips", * * * It was built chiefly of stone, the common rocks... [DOC] [TLE] Seven Reasons to Prefer Building With Stone - Mother Earth News [PAR] Of course, it would be absurd to suggest that any building material or type of ... 
However, since "rock foraging" isn't currently a common practice, regulations... [DOC] [TLE] Natural History of the Vermont Mountains [PAR] That analogy bears a grain of truth, for most of Vermont's rocks were formed from 
... sheets of new sedimentary rock, some of which are still found in New York 
State, ... approaching one another like behemoth ocean liners on a collision 
course. ... The original mountains created during the mountain-building events so 
long... [DOC] [TLE] Information about composite stone Granite - Minerals-N-More [PAR] I have always known that granite was a very versatile material. ... Other less 
common components give granite a wide variation in look and color. ... 
holocrystalline quartz-bearing plutonic rock and of course these types of rock do 
look like granite and may have ... The state of New Hampshire has the nickname 
"Granite State". [DOC] [TLE] granites of connecticut - USGS Publications Warehouse [PAR] Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; and

Question: New Hampshire's state rock of coarse is this common building material
Answer: Granite