NATURAL STONE
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MARBLE
Bring depth and warmth to your home interior with our selection of natural stone tiles. Each tile is uniquely variegated and textured for an authentic feel and tasteful design. Encompassing various traditional grey/white marbles alongside the more dramatic marble shades, an equivalent range of marble tiles is impossible to find elsewhere. With beautifully bold veining and delicate mottling, our marble floor and wall tiles give an extravagant feel to any interior space.
Marble Tiles
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We can supply the following natural marble tiles
- Carrara Marble tiles
- Calacatta Marble tiles
- Calacatta viola Marble tiles
- Alpina Marble tiles
- Rosalina Marble tiles
- Tundra Marble tiles
- Troy Marble tiles
- Verbena Marble tiles
- Manhattan Marble tiles
- Belgravia Marble tiles
- Bluestone Marble tiles
- Ecru Marble tiles
- White Emperador Marble tiles
- Royale Marble tiles
- Botticino Marble tiles
- Blue Lotus Marble tiles
- Nero Marquinia Marble tiles
- Ecru Marble tiles
Marble Flooring Detail Information
Marble For Wall and Flooring:
Marble is a metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colour by impurities and used especially in architecture and sculpture. Marble floor tile are also used for both interior and exterior wall or flooring applications. Some of the different colours of marble are red, black, white mottled and banded, gray, pink, and green.
It is extensively used for all types of commercial buildings and residential spaces like bathrooms or kitchen floors. It is also used for high quality daily use products such as bath tubs, wash basins and souvenirs such as statues.
Marble Flooring Detail Information
Marble For Walls and Floors:
Uses
Sculpture
White marbles has been prized for its use in sculptures since classical times. This preference has to do with its softness, which made it easier to carve, relative isotropy and homogeneity, and a relative resistance to shattering. Also, the low index of refraction of calcite allows light to penetrate several millimeters into the stone before being scattered out, resulting in the characteristic waxy look which gives “life” to marbles sculptures of any kind, which is why many sculptors preferred and still prefer marbles for sculpting.
Construction marble
Construction marble is a stone which is composed of calcite, dolomite or serpentine which is capable of taking a polish. More generally in construction, specifically the dimension stone trade, the term “marble” is used for any crystalline calcitic rock (and some non-calcitic rocks) useful as building stone. For example, Tennessee marbles are really a dense granular fossiliferous gray to pink to maroon Ordovician limestone that geologists call the Holston Formation.
Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan, was recorded in the 2013 Guinness Book of Records as having the world’s highest concentration of white marbles buildings.
Marble Flooring Detail Information
Marble For Walls and Floors:
Production
According to the United States Geological Survey, U.S. domestic marbles production in 2006 was 46,400 tons valued at about $18.1 million, compared to 72,300 tons valued at $18.9 million in 2005. Crushed marble production (for aggregate and industrial uses) in 2006 was 11.8 million tons valued at $116 million, of which 6.5 million tons was finely ground calcium carbonate and the rest was construction aggregate. For comparison, 2005 crushed marble production was 7.76 million tons valued at $58.7 million, of which 4.8 million tons was finely ground calcium carbonate and the rest was construction aggregate. U.S. dimension marble demand is about 1.3 million tons. The DSAN World Demand for (finished) Marble Index has shown a growth of 12% annually for the 2000–2006 period, compared to 10.5% annually for the 2000–2005 period. The largest dimension marbles application is tile.
In 1998, marbles production was dominated by 4 countries that accounted for almost half of world production of marbles and decorative stone. Italy and China were the world leaders, each representing 16% of world production, while Spain and India produced 9% and 8%, respectively. Italy is the world leader in marble export, with 20% share in global marble production, followed by China with 16%, India with 10%, Spain with 6%, and Portugal with 5%.
Physical origins
Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock. Metamorphism causes variable recrystallization of the original carbonate mineral grains. The resulting marble rock is typically composed of an interlocking mosaic of carbonate crystals. Primary sedimentary textures and structures of the original carbonate rock (protolith) have typically been modified or destroyed.
Pure white marbles is the result of metamorphism of a very pure (silicate-poor) limestone or dolomite protolith. The characteristic swirls and veins of many colored marble varieties are usually due to various mineral impurities such as clay, silt, sand, iron oxides, or chert which were originally present as grains or layers in the limestone. Green coloration is often due to serpentine resulting from originally magnesium-rich limestone or dolostone with silica impurities. These various impurities have been mobilized and recrystallized by the intense pressure and heat of the metamorphism.