A clast is a fragment of geological detritus chunks and smaller grains of rock broken off other rocks by physical weathering.
Is granite clastic.
None of the above.
Granite is an intrusive igneous rock formed from the cooling and solidifying of felsic magma at depth within the earth s crust.
Granite is commonly classified as an igneous rock one that was formed from cooling magma below the surface of the earth intrusive.
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments or clasts of pre existing minerals and rock.
It is a type of sedimentary rocks.
Igneous rock formed from lava erupted at the earth s surface.
Sandstone is used in both indoor and outdoor projects.
It is a type of igneous rocks.
A clast that is not yet wiped out in a metamorphic rock is called a porphyroclast which confusingly is also classified as a megacryst.
The antiquity use of sandstone are artifacts monuments sculpture.
Clastic rocks then are always sedimentary one exception.
Answered june 4 2016.
It has clastic granular rough texture.
No granite is an igneous rock.
The texture of granite is granular phaneritic.
These terms describe sedimentary rocks.
Granite is used in interior designing projects.
There s a deep distinction drawn among clastic rocks between holoclastic rocks like shale and sandstone and pyroclastic rocks that form around.
Geologists use the term clastic with reference to sedimentary rocks as well as to particles in sediment transport whether in suspension or as bed load and in sediment deposits.