Most marble is pale gray pink brown green yellow or blue.
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In geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.
Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Travertine or tufa in the mineral form of aragonite or calcite that exhibits color banding.
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Marble that contains a lot of bituminous material may be black.
Metamorphic rock formed from altered limestone that has changed through heat or pressure.
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Marble can be scratched with a metal blade.
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Marble is considered to be a strong hard stone even though its primary mineral calcite only has a mohs hardness of 3.
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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.
Marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions.
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Marble can describe a mineral environment where specific minerals are found.
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Under the conditions of metamorphism the calcite in the limestone recrystallizes to form a rock that is a mass of interlocking calcite crystals.
Some forms of marble are polished and used for ornamental purposes.
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The purest marble is white.
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Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite.