Posts Tagged ‘Marble’

· Marble: Marble is a crystalline rock, mainly composed of variable sized grains of calcite and dolomite, in addition to quartz, mica, graphite, garnet, pyrite, etc.. This makes the marble may have many and varied colors, which makes it very valuable and highly sought after as a decoration.

The marbles were formed in almost all geological eras and in most of the world, which explains its wide variety of the many factors affecting their emergence and existence. Is exploited in large open-air quarries.

Of course, as we all know, marble is the material used in sculpture, in the construction of monuments and statues, ornamental pieces, etc.. It is, in general, these uses most of us are familiar with the vision of marble. Read the rest of this entry »