Crossword-Solution: GRANITOID 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

All these trap-rocks appear to be of Laurentian date, as the Cambrian and Huronian rocks rest unconformably upon them.[13] Whether some of the various conformable crystalline rocks of the Laurentian series, such as the coarse-grained granitoid and porphyritic varieties of gneiss, exhibiting scarcely any signs of stratification, and some of the serpentines, may not also be of volcanic origin, is a point very difficult to determine in a region which has undergone so much metamorphic action.

The present lake wall of stone and granitoid was not then in place, but the road had been well laid out, the intermediate spaces of lawn were lovely to look upon, and the houses were thoroughly new and imposing.

For Uncle Tom on a summer's day to hire a surrey at Braintree's Livery Stable and drive thither was like--to what shall that bliss be compared in these days when we go to Europe with indifference? And now Lindell Road--the Via Claudia of long, ago--had become Lindell Boulevard, with granitoid sidewalks.

Our terminus that day was the usual resting-place of travellers, "Mfumba" behind Nkumungu (Point) Kaziwa, a mass of granitoid slabs, with a single tree for landmark.

Shadows from the tender young leaves decorated the whiteness of the smooth village road in dainty tracery, and splashed the ribbons of rain-drenched granitoid walks with warm shadow-spray.