Plate VIII. Marble. Das mineralreich in bildern. (The Mineral Kingdom in Pictures.) 1871.
Fig. 1—9. Marble.
Ruin marble, limestone based on layered deposits and decompositions. The vertical fracture consists of straight lines formed by straight lines, which have arisen through straight linear corrosion, unbranched and coarse.
Shell marble, Lumachell, polished, with embedded fossilized shells of mollusks, in which the sediment distinguishes itself through color play in red, yellow and green, which likely resembles an ammonite, cut and polished.
Red marble, breccia-like, from Upper Italy.
Pale yellow marble from Norway.
Black and white spotted drum marble, also called Arbesato [Arabescato] from the Apennines.
Black granite marble with inclusions of petrified mollusks (Pyramidella, Turdinella) from the Pyrenees mountains.
Gray marble with darker veins from Italy.
Red, green and white marked drum marble from Sicily.
Colorful marble with coral inclusions, from the transitional strata of Nassau.
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