A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | White marble, from near Tate, Georgia, USA |
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| Description | Marbles are metamorphosed limestones or dolostones. They are highly variable in color and character, but classic marble is white and polishes to produce smooth resistant surfaces. This high-quality marble is 99% calcite with very minor phlogopite present as small light brown-yellow flakes. It is quarried by the Georgia Marble Company in Tate, Georgia. Tate marble is used around the world as building, monument and grave stone. This sample is 8.5 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Georgia ▹ Pickens. Near Tate. Near the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-05-22. |
| Collection | Ward’s University Rock Collection #176. |
| Key words | marble, white marble, Georgia |
| Tech details | 677 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 509 |
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