Red - Sandstone
Italy
Item Details
Recommended Usage:
Wall and floor applications, countertops, mosaic, fountains, pool and wall capping, stairs, window sills
Finishing Surface:
Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled, Thermalled, Natural Cleft, Weatheredge
Additional Names:
Rosa Etrusco, Rosso Etrusco Sandstone, Areneria Rosso Etrusco,Rosso Etrusco
Description:
Reddish-violet uniform sandstone with fine to very fine grain.
It is a rock with a very low degree of porosity, the interstices between the granules are not completely occupied by siliceous concrete.
It is formed predominantly by granules of quartz, feldspars, mica and fragments of magmatic and metamorphic rock. It has no carbonatic components.
According to the petrographical study and the Q-F-(R+C) Folk (1974) diagram, Rosso etrusco can be classified as subarkose, being a rock that is particularly rich in quartz.