the bedrock
granite
salt & pepper
The tell
The crystals are scattered at random with no direction to them. If the light and dark minerals line up in bands, it is gneiss, not granite.
"Granite" on a beach is a catch-all. Nobody will argue with you.
What it gets mistaken for
The facts
- also calledsalt & pepper
- agePrecambrian
- where it turns upevery shore ยท glacial float
- on the chartthe bedrock · 1000 stickers ever
Put it on the shelf
Every stone on this chart is drawn and kiss-cut at three inches. The rarer the stone, the fewer exist: only 1000 granite will ever be printed, then the run is retired.
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