Marmara White Marble Slab

Item Name:  Marmara White Marble Slab

It is a white and gray marble with distinctive linear veins quarried in Turkey. This stone is especially good for Wall and floor applications, fountains, custom carvings sculptures, countertops, vanity tops, stairs and other design projects. It also called Marmara Zebra Marble, Marmara White Marble, Zebra Marmara Marble,Marmara Zebrino Marble,Equator Marmara Marble,Ekvator Marmara Mermeri,Marmara Pajamas White,Marmara Pijamas Marble,Panda Marmara Marble,Bianco Striata Marble,Bleu Striata Marble,Grigio Striata Marble,Marmara Beyazi,Marmol Marmara Weiss,Marmara White Marble,Moonlight Marble,Marmara Cizili Mermer,Marmara Cizgili Mermer,in China stone market:直纹白玉(Zhí wén báiyù) . Marmara Zebra Marble can be processed into Honed, Aged, Polished, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled and so on.

Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is exposed to high temperatures and pressures. Marble forms under such conditions because the calcite forming the limestone recrystallises forming a denser rock consisting of roughly equigranular calcite crystals.

• How Does Marble Form?

Most marble forms at convergent plate boundaries where large areas of Earth's crust are exposed to regional metamorphism. Some marble also forms by contact metamorphism when a hot magma body heats adjacent limestone or dolostone.

Before metamorphism, the calcite in the limestone is often in the form of lithified fossil material and biological debris. During metamorphism, this calcite recrystallizes and the texture of the rock changes. In the early stages of the limestone-to-marble transformation, the calcite crystals in the rock are very small. In a freshly-broken hand specimen, they might only be recognized as a sugary sparkle of light reflecting from their tiny cleavage faces when the rock is played in the light.

As metamorphism progresses, the crystals grow larger and become easily recognizable as interlocking crystals of calcite. Recrystallization obscures the original fossils and sedimentary structures of the limestone. It also occurs without forming foliation, which normally is found in rocks that are altered by the directed pressure of a convergent plate boundary.

Recrystallization is what marks the separation between limestone and marble. Marble that has been exposed to low levels of metamorphism will have very small calcite crystals. The crystals become larger as the level of metamorphism progresses. Clay minerals within the marble will alter to micas and more complex silicate structures as the level of metamorphism increases.

Physical Properties and Uses of Marble

Marble occurs in large deposits that can be hundreds of feet thick and geographically extensive. This allows it to be economically mined on a large scale, with some mines and quarries producing millions of tons per year. Most marble is made into either crushed stone or dimension stone. Crushed stone is used as an aggregate in highways, railroad beds, building foundations, and other types of construction. Dimension stone is produced by sawing marble into pieces of specific dimensions. These are used in monuments, buildings, sculptures, paving and other projects. We have an article about "the uses of marble" that includes photos and descriptions of marble in many types of uses.

1, What is your time of making samples?

Usually we will take 1~3 days to make the samples.

2, What is your delivery time?
The time of delivery is 30-35 days after manufacturing begins.

3, What is the shipping port?
We ship the goods via Xiamen, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Qingdao port.

4, What is the location of your company?
Our company was established in 1980 in the beautiful coastal city of Xiamen, which locates in one of the biggest granite material and production base and equipped with one of the biggest container ports in China.

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