Sendra Granite Sendra Granite Sendra Granite is a plutonic igneous rock population which is part of Delhi supergroup of meta-sedimentary rocks located along NH-8 in Rajasthan, India. It has undergone years of sculpting by wind and air. It was declared as a Geoheritage Site by the Geological Survey of India in 1977. It is located at a Latitude of -26° 05´ 3.6" N and a Longitude of -74° 13´ 17.8" E and is at a height of 429.6 ± 5.7 m above sea level. Sendra Granite is located in the Pali district of Rajasthan in the north-west of India. The Sendra Granite
Fall River granite of the underlying granite is the Hixville Fault near Dartmouth, Massachusetts. From a distance, the rock exhibits a distinctive tan-gray color. Viewed up close, it is more pink. The granite is very hard and durable, but cannot be polished very well. As a result, its appearance on a building is almost always somewhat rough, rather than the sharp lines of other types of building stone. Edmund Hitchcock, of the 1841 Geological Survey of Massachusetts gave the following description of the granite: But no rock can be finer for architectural purposes than the granite of Troy...The feldspar of this rock is