Granite Trango Towers), the Fitzroy Massif, Patagonia, Baffin Island, Ogawayama, the Cornish coast, the Cairngorms, Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Stawamus Chief, British Columbia, Canada. Granite rock climbing is so popular that many of the artificial rock climbing walls found in gyms and theme parks are made to look and feel like granite. Granite 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
Granite Rock Township, Redwood County, Minnesota was $35,000, and the median income for a family was $37,250. Males had a median income of $30,625 versus $20,500 for females. The per capita income for the township was $12,631. About 8.2% of families and 12.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.0% of those under the age of eighteen and 6.5% of those sixty five or over. Granite Rock Township, Redwood County, Minnesota Granite Rock Township is one of the twenty-six townships of Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 241 at the 2000 census. Granite Rock Township was organized in 1890, and named