An obsolete or variant geological term for granite or a granite-like igneous rock.
From 'granite' plus the mineral suffix '-ite' (used for minerals and rocks), a double-naming pattern that was more common in early geological terminology.
Old geology textbooks are full of redundant words like this—'granitite' is just 'granite' dressed up with a fancy mineral suffix that nobody really needed!
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