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2. Serpentine subgroup - Wikipedia

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   Serpentinite marbles are also widely used: Green Connemara marble (or 'Irish green marble') from Connemara, Ireland (and many other sources [citation needed]), and red Rosso di Levanto marble from Italy. Use is limited to indoor settings as serpentinites do not weather well.

3. Swedish green marble - Wikipedia

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   Swedish green marble, or simply Swedish green, is a marble from quarries in Kolmården, in the north-eastern part of the province of Östergötland in Sweden. It is fine-grained, with a variable green colour and attractive veining, due to serpentines in the stone. It is considered one of the hardest marbles in the world. [1] Swedish green has ...

4. Verd antique - Wikipedia

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   Green Thessalicum was three times the price of grey-white marble from Thassos. Verd antique was much used by the monumental builders of the Byzantine Empire and by the Ottomans after them; columns and revetments of verde antico are common in Istanbul's monuments, many inherited from the city's time as Constantinople.

5. Marble - Wikipedia

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   Construction marble is a stone which is composed of calcite, dolomite or serpentine that is capable of taking a polish. [20] More generally in construction, specifically the dimension stone trade, the term marble is used for any crystalline calcitic rock

6. Euchloe naina - Wikipedia

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   Euchloe naina, the green marble, is a species of butterfly that occurs in northern North America and Siberia and has been recorded mainly in the interior of Alaska but has also been recorded on Kodiak by Keith Bruce and verified by Kenelm Philips in 2012. [1] It is mostly white with black markings on the topside of the forewing tips and body.

7. Cipollino marble - Wikipedia

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   Cipollino marble ("onion-stone") was a variety of marble used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, whose Latin term for it was marmor carystium (meaning "marble from Karystos"). It was quarried in several locations on the south-west coast of the Greek island of Euboea , between the modern-day cities of Styra and Karystos .