Westerly Granite Composition

The following is part nine in westerly life s behind the murals series discussing the history behind all of the recently created murals throughout downtown westerly and pawcatuck.

Westerly granite composition.

Described as gray with tints of blue to pink equigranular and fine grained calc alkaline quartz monzonite to granodiorite. Samples deformed at lower temperatures and pressures show throughgoing faults. Westerly granite found between westerly and bradford is a pink to gray fine grained granite composed of glassy quartz black mica and feldspar. The westerly occurs mainly as dikes.

The mineral composition of westerly granite makes it easy to polish. Please note that comolli granite will be closed from aug 12 through aug 18 for vacations. Began to occur profusely with increasing temperature. The deformation behavior of quartz and feldspar has been studied in westerly granite deformed dry at a constant strain rate of 10 6 s confining pressures of 1 5 15 kbar and temperatures of 25 1000 c.

The mural discussed below which presents a look at westerly s history in the granite industry can be found between shield martial arts and fret s guitar workshop. Please call us at 401 377 2530 or. Comolli granite of westerly ri provides granite memorials monuments mausoleum markers pavers and benches. The acoustic emission of westerly granite subjected to temperature changes up to 120 at various heating rates from 0 4 to 12 5 c min was studied.