What's So Great About Granite?

Even if they don’t know much about rocks, most people can name at least one place they have encountered granite. As a rock, granite is speckled, sparkly, and beautiful, and it’s used in products we encounter every day, including countertops, headstones, and flooring. In the natural world granite forms random boulders in fields and many of the planet’s loftiest peaks. Granite is everywhere—from Georgia to Alaska and Maine to California—most states have somewhere that you can go to discover g...