Look up tour de force in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tour de Force may refer to: 1  French phrase, meaning, a feat or display of strength, skill, or ingenuity, such as the funny movie is a comic tour de force.  Tour De Force (tour), 1986 Elton John Concert Tour.
Granite is an igneous rock composed of mostly two minerals: quartz and feldspar. It is an intrusive rock, meaning that it crystallized from magma that cooled far below the earth's surface.
Granite is a plutonic rock in which quartz makes up between 10 and 50 percent of the felsic components and alkali feldspar accounts for 65 to 90 percent of the total feldspar content.ranite is composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with minor amounts of mica, amphiboles and other minerals. This mineral composition usually gives granite a red, pink, gray or white color with dark mineral grains visible throughout the rock. Granite is the best-known igneous rock.