Marble
For thousands of years marble has held a reputation as a grand material, its use in sculpture and building widespread. In a geological context there are three general types of rock formations: igneous, rocks formed through the solidification of molten magma or lava; sedimentary, formed by rock particles broken down by the action of weathering and cemented together over thousands of years; and metamorphic. Metamorphic rocks are those that have mutated from one rock type to another over prolonged time. Marble is one such rock, metamorphosing from limestone – or calcium carbonate.
Marble can be richly veined or a cold, matt white material which, when cut thinly, is capable of creamy translucence, but in either form it is an evocative material. ...
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