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Blue Granite

 

Granite Boulders by the Blue Ridge Parkway

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Lake Below Table Rock

The General Assembly by Act No. 345 of 1969, adopted the Blue Granite as the official stone of the State. The Act stated that "the blue granite stone of this State has been widely used to beautify all areas of South Carolina.

*Granite is  IGNEOUS
* The  minerals which make-up granite are composed of silicon and oxygen.
*Granite has rather large crystals because the magma cooled-off very slowly underground.

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Quartz is typically gray to colorless 
potassium feldspar is almost always pink colored.
Biotite Mica is a black sheetlike mineral

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