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2. Carrara marble - Wikipedia

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   Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.

3. Geology of the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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   Little is known about the history of the oldest exposed rocks in the area due to extensive metamorphism.This somber, gray, almost featureless crystalline complex is composed of originally sedimentary and igneous rocks with large quantities of quartz and feldspar mixed in. [1] The original rocks were transformed to contorted schist and gneiss, making their original parentage almost unrecognizable.

4. Pigmented structural glass - Wikipedia

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   Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite, among others, is a high-strength, colored glass. Developed in the United States in 1900, it was widely used around the world in the first half of the 20th century in Art Deco and ...

5. Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara - Wikipedia

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   The Met object ID: 12052. [ edit on Wikidata] Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara is a 1911 painting by John Singer Sargent which is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] The painting depicts the major effort and gruelling labor involved in the manual quarrying of marble at the Carrara quarries in Tuscany ...

6. List of types of marble - Wikipedia

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   Marble from Fauske Municipality in Norway Blocks of Carrara marble in Italy. The following is a list of various types of marble according to location. (NB: Marble-like stone which is not true marble according to geologists is included, but is indicated by italics with geologic classification given as footnote.

7. Marble - Wikipedia

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   Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO 3) or dolomite (CaMg (CO 3) 2) that have recrystallized under the influence of heat and pressure. [1] It has a crystalline texture, and is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term marble refers to metamorphosed ...

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   Volupsa Candle Trio. $30 $36 Save $6. Make your bathroom smell like a spa. Discover citrus and fruity notes from fragrances Goji & Tarocco Orange, and Panjore Lychee, and woody notes from French ...

9. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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   t. e. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [1][2] Alabama leads the nation with the number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia.