granite

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US President Donald Trump has continued his makeover of the White House, adding a statue of Christopher Colombus and laying new black granite paving stones on the famed West Wing colonnade.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Beneath Pine Island Glacier lies an enormous buried granite mass, nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick, roughly half the size of Wales in the UK.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

In May 2025, Shannon “SJ” Joslin was among a group of climbers who ascended the El Capitan granite formation and hung a 55-foot-by-35-foot flag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

At 3:30, I climbed some steps carved into granite and found myself on a spacious rock overlook: the summit of Springer Mountain.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson