Marble Grain Type

Can see interlocking calcite crystals with the naked eye.

Marble grain type.

The chromatic uniformity of its base the type of grain and the thickness as well as drawing of its veins are characteristic and unique to each variety. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. Hardness hard although component mineral is soft calcite is 3 on moh s scale of hardness. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.

Marble granular limestone or dolomite i e rock composed of calcium magnesium carbonate that has been recrystallized under the influence of heat pressure and aqueous solutions. Calacatta it is a calcitic white marble. Grain size medium grained. It is composed primarily of the mineral calcite caco 3 and usually contains other minerals such as clay minerals micas quartz pyrite iron oxides and graphite under the conditions of metamorphism the calcite in the limestone recrystallizes to form a rock that is.

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