How are granite and rhyolite different? In what way are they similar?

What will be an ideal response?


Granite is an intrusive igneous rock with phaneritic texture. Rhyolite is an extrusive igneous rock with aphanitic texture. Both are felsic in composition, more or less chemically identical.

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