New Hampshire State Symbols, Rock

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Granite

Adopted in 1985

Among the most popular, the hardest, and the oldest of geosymbols, granite is an official symbol of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Granite has "chunks" of other rock mixed in kind of like a chocolate chip cookie with M & Ms. You'll typically find quartz, feldspar, mica, and hornblende folded into it. Granite is commonly used as a building and decorative stone