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    Marble is a metamorphosed limestone or dolomite that can take a high polish. It forms under high pressures and temperatures, where limestone crystals form calcite or dolomite. This gives marble its variety of colors due to mineral impurities caught in its structure. Marble has been prized for sculpture since ancient times due to its softness and resistance to shattering. It has also been used widely in construction due its ability to be polished and used as a building stone, though some stones called "marble" are actually other materials like limestone. Famous structures made of marble include the Taj Mahal.

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    Marble is a metamorphosed limestone or dolomite that can take a high polish. It forms under high pressures and temperatures, where limestone crystals form calcite or dolomite. This gives marble its variety of colors due to mineral impurities caught in its structure. Marble has been prized for sculpture since ancient times due to its softness and resistance to shattering. It has also been used widely in construction due its ability to be polished and used as a building stone, though some stones called "marble" are actually other materials like limestone. Famous structures made of marble include the Taj Mahal.

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    Marble is a metamorphosed limestone or dolomite that can take a high polish. It forms under high pressures and temperatures, where limestone crystals form calcite or dolomite. This gives marble its variety of colors due to mineral impurities caught in its structure. Marble has been prized for sculpture since ancient times due to its softness and resistance to shattering. It has also been used widely in construction due its ability to be polished and used as a building stone, though some stones called "marble" are actually other materials like limestone. Famous structures made of marble include the Taj Mahal.

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    Marble

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    Marble is a metamorphosed limestone or dolomite that can take a high polish. It forms under high pressures and temperatures, where limestone crystals form calcite or dolomite. This gives marble its variety of colors due to mineral impurities caught in its structure. Marble has been prized for sculpture since ancient times due to its softness and resistance to shattering. It has also been used widely in construction due its ability to be polished and used as a building stone, though some stones called "marble" are actually other materials like limestone. Famous structures made of marble include the Taj Mahal.

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    Marble is any limestone or dolomite that can take a high polish and still be usable. Marble is generally formed from limestone undergoing metamorphism. When exposed to extremes of pressure or heat limestone turns into calcite or dolomite crystals, which are the primary materials in marble. Marble is one of the most beautiful stones, with a highly polished smooth face and a wide variety of colors. These various colors are due to impurities, such as iron or carbon, getting caught in the marbles structure during formation. They often appear in stripes which makes the marble, especially when cut, very beautiful.

    Use Of Marble
    Sculpture
    White marble has been prized for its use in sculptures since classical times. This preference has to do with its softness, relative isotropy and homogeneity, and a relative resistance to shattering. Also, the low index of refraction of calcite allows light to penetrate several millimeters into the stone before being scattered out, resulting in the characteristic waxy look which gives "life" to marble sculptures of the human body.

    Construction marble
    Construction marble is a stone which is composed of calcite, dolomite or serpentine which is capable of taking a polish.[7] More generally in construction, specifically the dimension stone trade, the term "marble" is used for any crystalline calcitic rock (and some non-calcitic rocks) useful as building stone. For example, Tennessee marble is really a dense granular fossiliferous gray to pink to maroon Ordovician limestone that geologists call the Holston Formation.

    Some different types of marble:

    RAIN FOREST MARBLE

    SPECKED MARBLE

    MARBLE

    VEINED MARBLE

    Folded and weathered marble at General Carrera Lake, Chile.

    FAMOUS WONDER MADE UP OF MARBLE

    Taj Mahal

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