Granite is composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with minor amounts of mica amphiboles and other minerals this mineral composition usually gives granite a red pink gray or white color with dark mineral.
What does granite look like in minecraft.
Granite is a light colored igneous rock with grains large enough to be visible with the unaided eye.
It s usually exposed on the surface in extreme hills biomes but it can generate in other biomes as well.
Granite has different colors from gray to distinctive pink.
It forms from the slow crystallization of magma below earth s surface.
The word granite comes from the latin term granum a grain in reference to the coarse grained structure of such a crystalline rock.
The pink granite in minecraft reflected to its real life counterpart that has potassium feldspar in its composition.
Unlike obsidian however granite forms very sloooooowly and that sloooooow process means that crystals can grow inside.
Real world granite is an igneous rock meaning that it s formed when lava or magma cools down and solidifies just like obsidian forms in minecraft.
Granite is a naturally occurring block found in most overworld biomes.