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victorgardener wrote:
Thanks. Here is Cadillac granite - the beautiful pink rocks famous at Acadia. The pink comes from feldspar, the white is quartz and the black is hornblende. This granite started in a volcano (over 400 million years ago) and cooled slowly, allowing the large, visible crystals to form.