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Igneous Rock

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Last Answer : Definitely Granite because although copper, iron and lead all lack metabolism, causing granite to be the heaviest of the bunch.

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Last Answer : The minerals that make up the granite in the mountain areweathered by chemicals at the surface of the Earth and they allbreak down except the quartz which is stable at the Earth'ssurface.Water, ... deeper it heats up and the grains arewelded together to form a metamorphic rock called a quartzite.

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Last Answer : I do not know

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