Rockville granite

Rockville Beige

Description

A coarse-grain, gray granite with large (0.5-0.75 inch) pink feldspar grains along with quartz and black mica. Rockville granite is mined north of St.Cloud, Minnesota.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Rockville Beige; Rockville White

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  Rockville White

Authority

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Frank A. Lent, Frank A. Lent, Trade names and Descriptions of Marbles, Limestones, Sandstones, Granites and Other Building Stones Quarried in the United States Canada and other Countries., Stone Publishing Co, New York, 1925