Materials

Marble

Metamorphic Rock

Citation Formats

General Reference

Earth and Environment Atlas. "Marble." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/marble.

APA Style

Earth and Environment Atlas. (n.d.). Marble. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/marble

BibTeX

@misc{earthandenvironmentatlas-marble,
  author = {Earth and Environment Atlas},
  title = {Marble},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/materials/marble},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Limestone recrystallized under heat and pressure into an interlocking mass of calcite crystals, prized since antiquity for sculpture and architecture because it takes a fine polish.

Facts

Kind

Rock 1

Formation Class

Metamorphic, formed by subjecting limestone to different temperature and pressure conditions than those it originally formed in 1

Chemical Formula

Recrystallized calcium carbonate, CaCO3 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Discipline

Geology

Source Rock, Geology (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Rock, Geology (Wikipedia)

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