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Granite is formed from the slow cooling of high silicate magma intrusions that have risen through the crust and formed large bulbous chambers of molten material called plutons. Plutons can take millions of years to cool and crystallize into granitic rock.

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Granite is created by the slow crystallization of magma beneath the Earth's surface. As the magma cools and solidifies over millions of years, it undergoes a process of transformation, resulting in the formation of granite rock. This process involves the cooling and solidification of molten rock material rich in quartz, feldspar, and other minerals.

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Granite is formed deep inside the earth but there are many places where this rock can be seen at the surface.

The fact is that the geochemical process of making granite are not fully understood. Many times different kinds of granite are created concurrently (like orbital granitiods) and it is not clear why or how. Obviously, the geochemistry of the materials is paramount. But the actual processes at the temperatures and pressures found within the earth cannot be replicated for any meaningful time in the laboratory - so we cannot be sure of the exact process of formation, only the result.

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grainte can from in magma pockets or in mountain ranges

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Granite forms when magma rich in silica, aluminum, sodium, and potassium cools slowly underground.

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Granite is an igneous rock that formed deep below the earths crust. The composition of silicate crystals. Granite is the composite of three main minerals, quartz, feldspar, and biotite.

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granite may have been formed from the mighty works from God

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igneous colls

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still being formed

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