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Test yourself on differentiating granite from andesite at the outdoor rock garden, meditate among CWU’s compact Japanese Garden, and watch for massive sculptures adorning CWU’s pathways.

Eichelberger, J. C. Origin of andesite and dacite: evidence of mixing at Glass Mountain in California and at other circum-Pacific volcanoes.

In many places, the flowing water has worn those rocks smooth, showing how strong they are, and how seamlessly the andesite merges with the granitic rock.

Danny Valle, an artist from Mexico City with a long black beard, designed the sculpture as a replica of the original andesite Coatlicue, which sits in Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

It turns out that hangi stones were carefully chosen, and one of the most popular types was an andesite boulder found in Central North Island.