Marble
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Metamorphic rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Medium (3 to 5.5)
- Colour
- White, Grey, Pink
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Building
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Marble is limestone that was baked and squeezed deep in the Earth until it became a mosaic of crystals.
- Michelangelo carved his statue of David from a block of Carrara marble from Italy.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q40861 · All stones · All entries