Marble Slab Types

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Marble slab types.

Please read material considerations to understand the characteristics of marble prior to making a selection. Marble is cut from specialized quarries where different slabs of the rock are sent to factories for further polishing. Below are breakdowns of the different types of marble sorted by color and type. Marble is being created by the transformation of other stones through the action of high temperatures and intense pressures.

On the whole bardiglio comes in a brown and sometimes gray color and the subtypes of this marble simply have varying tones with a range of different veining patterns. Many people get the calacatta and carrara marble types confused because they are both quarried in the carrara region of italy however carrara marble is usually white gray or blue gray in color. Since there are so many different types of marble it s important to sort them in a way that makes the most sense. Marble is a classic architectural material and is suitable for a variety of applications from countertops to building facades.

Marble is a metamorphic stone with a timeless history as a flooring wall covering paving material and sculptural medium. As a result of this process new minerals textures and structures give rise to a large number of different types of marble as we will see in the examples below. The bardiglio marble is a type of marble that has various different subcategories such as bardiglio bluette bardiglio imperiale chiaro bardiglio nuvolato and bardiglio scuro. This type of marble is both brown and off white with splotches of dark brown and black.

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