This is an earthcache, so no container exists, and there is no log to sign. Just read the description, answer some questions and post a photo of you or your GPS at the cache site.
No need to wait for a reply to log your attendance.
Granite
Granite is an intrusive igneous rock with large crystals (minerals) easily seen by the naked eye. Granite colors are most commonly pink, white, variations of grey and black.
Granite is the rock most often quarried as a "dimension stone" (a natural rock material that has been cut into blocks or slabs of specific length, width, and thickness). Granite is hard enough to resist abrasion, strong enough to bear significant weight, inert enough to resist weathering, and it accepts a brilliant polish. These characteristics make it a very desirable and useful dimension stone.
Intrusive rock means that molten rock cooled within the crust and was never expelled as molten rock. The gradual cooling of molten rock is imperative to create the large crystals of a singular mineral that we see in granite. With time, there is differential lithification or solidifying of molten rock dependent on chemical makeup, this allows for different types of minerals to form at different periods of time and alter the final resulting granite. Therefore, the size of individual grains is proportional to how slowly the molten rock was cooled.
Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
Granite is a conglomerate of minerals and rocks, primarily quartz, potassium feldspar, mica, amphiboles, and trace other minerals. Granite typically contains 20-60% quartz, 10-65% feldspar, and 5-15% micas (biotite or muscovite). The minerals that make up granite give it the unique colours we see in different types of granite.
A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification.
The co-ordinates take you to a line of granite fenceposts - One of these posts is very different to the others. To log this earthcache, just answer a few simple questions and email or message them via my profile.
1) Describe why one post is different from the others
2) Describe the part of the post that is different i.e. colour, size and shape
3) What do you think this is and what caused it.
4) Posting a photograph a view of yourself or your GPS with the fabulous view is required to log this simple earthcache.
Well done to Joe Smile for his FTF