Even more hardy minerals like plagioclase feldspar, found in everything from gabbro to granite, can be susceptible to breaking down into clays when they react with acidic water. Second would be ...

The countertop has quartz, plagioclase feldspar, potassium feldspar and biotite? That is likely granite. At another house it is all calcite...now that's marble. Slicing Up the Rocks However, the ...

This study performed an investigation of magmatic growth history of the K-feldspar megacrysts and plagioclase crystals in the Halifax Pluton, a Late Devonian age granite that intruded into the Meguma ...

Granite is a hard, coarse-grained rock making up most of the earth. It consists chiefly of three minerals: quartz, alkali feldspar (which contain alumina and silica) and plagioclase feldspar ...