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  2. Thousand Islands – Frontenac Arch - Wikipedia

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    The bedrock is mostly gneiss, granite, and marble, more than a billion years old. [2] The Frontenac terrain is the youngest of the Ontario portions of the arch, dated at 1.2 billion years old. [3] These rocks were once part of a large mountain chain of the ancient supercontinent of Rodinia.

  3. Roman Provincial Forum (Mérida) - Wikipedia

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    The Forum consisted of a large square sided by a monumental portico, with a large temple in the center, which was accessed through the Arch of Trajan. Edifices included: triumphal Arch of Tiberius, situated at the end of the cardo maximus (the main road of Emerita Augusta). Built of granite, it is 13.97 m. It was originally covered with marble.

  4. Piccirilli Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The model was then sent to the Piccirilli Brothers who carved it from stone, typically marble, although limestone and granite were also used. The brothers became the carvers of choice for many American sculptors of the time including Daniel Chester French and Paul Wayland Bartlett.

  5. Grande Arche - Wikipedia

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    Grande Arche at night. A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941–2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than ...

  6. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is the world's largest "deep hole" granite quarry. It produces Devonian Barre granite. Graniteville is home of its owner, the 1885-founded Rock of Ages Corporation, since 2016 part of Polycor, Inc., the largest producer of marble and granite in North America. Quarrying continues, and the quarry may be visited by the public.

  7. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    For severe environments, granite is a more lasting material but one which is far more difficult to work and much less suitable for refined works. Compared to metals such as bronze, furthermore, marble is inflexible and vulnerable to fracturing. This drawback means that sculptors must incorporate specific supporting features into the sculpture ...

  8. How to Clean Quartz, Granite, Marble, and Butcher Block ... - AOL

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    Similar to granite and marble, butcher block must be sealed with a food-safe oil or finish. And it’s important to know your butcher block’s type : edge grain, end grain, or face grain, for ...

  9. Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch - Wikipedia

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    The arch was supposed to have been completed in late 1891, [84] [85] but work was delayed because of a strike at the granite supplier's quarry. [86] The Arch Commission voted in July 1892 to install incandescent light bulbs on the southern facade and to delay the installation of all the arch's sculptures. [87]

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