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Marble quarry
The environmental impact of Carrara's marble quarries
Close-up of marble showing its crystalline texture with interlocking mineral grains in shades of gray and white. Marble statue of Julius Caesar in a toga, standing with one arm extended, displayed indoors with ornate gold-framed decor in the background. Large marble portal of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, featuring intricate floral and geometric inlay designs, with visitors standing at the base. Excavator and equipment at the base of a stepped open quarry with large white marble blocks in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. Trucks loaded with large marble blocks travel along a winding mountain road surrounded by green hills, with marble quarries visible on the slopes near Carrara, Italy.
Discover How Michelangelo Came to Carve the David from a Badly Blocked Piece of Carrara Marble
Watch white and colored marble quarried in Bulgarian mountains and transported for fabrication
Learn how some of the world's finest marble is quarried and processed in Carrara, Italy
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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.
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Modified link of Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Simulation of temperature and chemical weathering effect on marble rocks. Oct 01, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Dynamic behavior and constitutive model of marble subjected to wet-dry cycling. Jun 19, 2026
Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Simulation of temperature and chemical weathering effect on marble rocks. Dec 19, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - An automatic visual system for marble tile classification (PDF). Apr 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Indian Bureau of Mines - Marble (PDF). Jan 02, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of Marble Aquifer with Point Recharge from Two Deep Sinkholes, Menderes Massive, Western Turkey (PDF). Nov 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Geology.com - Marble. Nov 07, 2022
Deleted media. Jul 30, 2021
Corrected display issue. Jan 14, 2020
Add new Web site: Imperial College London - Marble. Mar 08, 2017
Add new Web site: The University of Auckland, New Zealand - Geology - Rocks and Minerals - Marble. Mar 08, 2017
Replaced photograph. Sep 21, 2015
Added video. Nov 26, 2014
Add new Web site: University College London - Marble. Jul 26, 2013
Add new Web site: Mineral Information Institute - Marble. Jan 08, 2013
Add new Web site: Mineral Information Institute - Marble. Jan 08, 2013
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Science and Medicine - Marble. Jun 06, 2011
Media added. Apr 07, 2011
Add new Web site: TATE - Biography of Jim Dine. Oct 08, 2010
Updated geologic time data. May 20, 2010
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Dragutin Dimitrijevic. Sep 08, 2008
Added new Web site: Selectmarble - Types Of Marble. Sep 08, 2008
Added new Web site: Think Quest - Marble. Sep 08, 2008
Media added. Oct 24, 2007
Added new Web site: California State Polytechnic University - Marble. Feb 09, 2007
Added new Web site: MedicineNet.com - Biography of Galen. Feb 09, 2007
Article revised and updated. Dec 14, 2006
Article added to new online database. May 27, 1999
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