Meanings of granitic rocks in English

The drift-clays are the result of the grinding up of granitic rocks.

A gramen of Switzerland grows on the granitic rocks of the straits of Magellan.

The granitic rocks included granite, gneisses, syenites and norite.

Such crystals occur either in cavities in mineral-veins and in granitic rocks, or as a lining in agate geodes.

Plants disappeared; the granitic rocks lost all trace of solidity; the liquid state was suddenly substituted for that which had before existed.

These enormous stony masses appear sometimes in rhombs, sometimes under those hemispheric forms, peculiar to granitic rocks when they separate in blocks.

Much fine amethyst comes from Russia, especially from near Mursinka in the Ekaterinburg district, where it occurs in drusy cavities in granitic rocks.