Blue Venato Marble Tiles, Marble Slabs

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Types and characteristics of Marble: Today we want to explain to you the various types of characteristics of Marble, which with its unique characteristics, marble enchanted the ancient Greeks and Romans, and even the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, but above all the Romans who used quantities of Crazy marble.

It is no coincidence that an infinite number of monuments and buildings in antiquity were entirely made of marble, and are still present in our cities, since places of worship, residences, villas, gardens, were made with this very precious material called Marble.

Despite its ancient history, marble has not lost its charm, becoming since the past one of the most appreciated and used materials for the furnishing of private and public buildings, precisely because of its characteristics and typologies.

Based on the composition, origin and color characteristics, it is possible to identify numerous types of marble, each a symbol of diversity, elegance and charm.

Types and characteristics of Marble

Màrmaros, in ancient Greek meant "shining stone" and marble is in fact a metamorphic stone capable of reflecting light in different ways, resulting clear and translucent, according to an effect defined as "wax".

This ability to react to different lighting conditions derives from the singular composition of this rock. Marble is mainly composed of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) and is formed through a metamorphic process that occurs between sedimentary rocks, limestone and dolomite, which in turn causes a complete recrystallization of the calcium carbonate and gives rise to an infinite of calcite or dolomite crystals.

The combined action of pressure and temperatures profoundly modifies the original structures of the rock, thus contributing to the formation of marble, destroying any stratification, fossil and sedimentary structure present initially, this helps in the creation of the various types and characteristics of marble

The different colors that characterize marble are instead the result of the presence of mineral impurities in the rock (clay, silt, sand, iron oxides); during the metamorphic processes these impurities in turn undergo a recrystallization process, giving all those characteristic veins of marble and colored textures in shades of red, green, yellow, gray and purple.

In ancient times, colored marble was not much appreciated as it was considered impure, or rather dirty and unusable. The only marble that was used was white, considered the only pure and perfect one. This is the main reason why many ancient monuments were built with white marble, some examples: the Pantheon in Rome and the Parthenon in Athens, are entirely made of white marble.

Marble: the main types and characteristics of marble

As already mentioned, the different types of marble derive from a complex process of metamorphosis and recrystallization of the rocks that compose it and it is possible to classify the main types of marble on the basis of their composition:

• Crystalline calcareous marbles: these are marbles characterized by the presence of large crystals and the absence of impurities. They have an appearance reminiscent of crystallized sugar and present crystals due to precipitation due to supersaturation of the solutions.
• Cryptocrystalline calcareous marbles: these are marbles characterized by a less defined crystalline structure than crystalline limestone marbles and by the presence of colorful fossils responsible for the different colours.
• Clastic marbles: they occur in the form of small accumulations in rocks, in cemented fossils and in calcareous or siliceous materials.
• Serpentine marbles: they are also known as "green marbles of Prato" and owe their name to the rock from which they originate, the serpentine. In addition to green, they can take on darker shades, tending towards blue and yellow.

Blue marble

The name of this type of marble derives from the great similarity between its natural color and the synthetically created blue. This rock is mainly quarried in Turkey, a country where it is widely used for interior and exterior decoration and street furniture, and where blue, in all its light and dark shades, characterizes entire landscapes and cities.

Other

Blue Venato Marble

Very nice marble with bluish reflexes, mostly specified for interior single or combined with other materials.

Most appreciated in combination with Carrara for diagonal typical pavings.

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