More on granite. Granite is original and underived. A key factor is that granite, when melted and rehardened, changes into rhyolite. For this reason, it is impossible for scientists to artificially produce granite. Another special quality of granite is that it never contains any fossils.
Granite is the bedrock undergirding all continents.
But recently it has been discovered that the granite keeps going down, far below the Conrad discontinuity. Yet Gentry's research shows that all that granite came into existence within just three minutes. Working with microscopes in the late 1800s, scientists found small halos in granite. But the scientists could not figure out what caused them. Gentry finally solved the riddle, and that unveiled the discovery to us.