» South Indian Granites » North Indian Granites Granite is a common and widely-occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granites are usually a white, black or buff color and are medium to coarse grained, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as porphyry. Granites can be pink to dark gray or even black, depending on their chemistry and mineralogy.
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