What Do We Use Igneous Rocks For?

Igneous rocks

• make useful road building materials because they are so hard.


• Sheets of igneous rock can be cut and polished and used inside buildings


• gravestones.

Different types have different uses

• Granite




• Used for long lasting monuments


• trim and decoration on buildings


• outdoor stairs


• landscaping walls


• counter tops in kitchens


• tile


• Pumice




• used as a decorative landscape stone or boulder


• grounded to a powder and used as an abrasive in polish compounds


• Crystalline Igneous Rocks




• jewelery