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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. List of types of marble - Wikipedia

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   Daleti marble, Western Welega: white, white with grey veins and other colours [1] Enda Tikurir marble, Western Tigray. Newi marble, Central Tigray. Akmara marble, Central Tigray. Dichinamo marble, Western Tigray.

4. Hardstone carving - Wikipedia

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   Hardstone carving, in art history and archaeology, is the artistic carving of semi-precious stones (and sometimes gemstones), such as jade, rock crystal (clear quartz), agate, onyx, jasper, serpentinite, or carnelian, and for objects made in this way. [1][2] Normally the objects are small, and the category overlaps with both jewellery and ...

5. Llanite - Wikipedia

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   Llanite. Llanite is a porphyritic rhyolite with distinctive phenocrysts of blue quartz (a rare quartz color) and perthitic feldspar (light grayish-orangeish). The brown, fine-grained groundmass consists of very small quartz, feldspar, and biotite mica crystals. Llanite comes from a hypabyssal porphyritic rhyolite dike that intrudes Precambrian ...

6. Half Dome - Wikipedia

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   Easiest route. Cable route. Half Dome is a quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation in the park, named for its distinct shape. One side is a sheer face while the other three sides are smooth and round, making it appear like a dome cut in half.

7. Quartz - Wikipedia

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   Quartz. Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO 4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO 2. Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral ...

8. Check Your Pantry—These 10 Items Have Most Likely Already ...

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   Peanut Butter. This one may cause a pause, but there's a caveat here. Most commercial peanut butter lasts a while in the pantry if they're unopened like six to 24 months. On the other hand ...

9. Megalithic Temples of Malta - Wikipedia

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   The Megalithic Temples of Malta (Maltese: It-Tempji Megalitiċi ta' Malta) are several prehistoric temples, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, [1] built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta. [2] They had been claimed as the oldest free-standing structures on Earth ...