What's so great about granite?
By: Jennifer H. Carey ; photographs by Marli Bryant Miller
Contributors: Miller, Marli Bryant, 1960-
Series: What's so cool about geology
Publisher: Mountain Press Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Missoula, Mont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780878425631
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's so great about granite?; title: What is granite?; title: Sparkles and speckles : the minerals of granite; title: Animal, mineral, or vegetable?; title: Pigeonholing rocks : this is granite and so is that; title: True granite; title: The pretenders : what is not granite; title: When granite is gneiss; title: Where can you find granite?; title: Hard-boiled tectonics; title: Are you dense?; title: Upwardly mobile; title: Floaters in the bathtub; title: How does granite form?; title: Am I intruding?; title: Bodies of the underworld; title: Country rock : it's not music; title: Magma soup; title: Reading crystals; title: The broth; title: Why is some granite hard and some crumbly?; title: Breaking up is hard to do; title: Weathering is the pits; title: How old is granite?; title: Dating in the dark ages; title: Halftime.