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"Salisbury Pink Granite" - granite from the Devonian of North Carolina, USA.

"Granite" in the decorative stone trade is any relatively hard rock that will take a fine polish, regardless of mineralogy or chemistry or geologic origin.

"Granites" turn out to be felsic to mafic intrusive igneous rocks (granite, granodiorite, porphyritic granite, rapakivi granite, orbicular granite, pegmatitic granite, graphic granite, anorthosite, monzonite, gabbro, norite, gabbronorite, dolerite, diabase, charnockite, etc.) and high-grade to very high-grade metamorphic rocks (metanorthosite, gneiss, metaconglomerate, amphibolite, quartzite, granulite, migmatite).

True granites (= monzogranites & syenogranites & porphyritic varieties) make up most of the commercial granite trade. Countless varieties are quarried around the world.

Salisbury Pink Granite is a pinkish monzogranite (formerly referred to as "adamellite") from near Salisbury, west-central North Carolina, USA. This rock is quarried from the Early Devonian (411 million years) Salisbury Pluton. It is dominated by quartz, K-feldspar, and plagioclase feldspar. The unit also contains whitish-colored monzogranites, but the pink variety is valued more as a decorative stone.
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