Turtle pendant with a handcrafted Lake Michigan Granite cabochon and a 20" antique bronze base metal chain. This Lake Michigan Granite Stone Turtle Pendant natural stone jewelry and wearable art is truly a one-of-a-kind stone treasure!
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar, although commonly the term "granite" is used to refer to a wider range of coarse-grained igneous rocks containing quartz and feldspar.
Granite is nearly always massive (lacking any internal structures), hard and tough, and therefore it has gained widespread use throughout human history as a construction stone. The average density of granite is between 2.65 and 2.75 g/cm3 (165 and 172 lb/cu ft)[3], its compressive strength usually lies above 200 MPa, and its viscosity near STP is 3–6·1019 Pa·s.
Granite is a Stone of abundance and protection. Believed to help your health, energy and overall situation. Granite is a great balancer of water and earth (emotions and practicality). Earth helps water to keep its deep emotions in check. This incredible stone works on both the base and sacral chakras as it grounds unstable or unsure emotions.
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