| P number: | P576156 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Pentellic, Alabama. Grant's Quarry, Alabama. |
| Description: | Label name: Pentellic, Alabama. Alternative name: Alabama Pentellic no. 1. Specimen description: White with indestinct blue/grey veins. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 589 ALABAMA PENTELIC No. 1. Gantts Quarries, Talladega County, Alabama. This specimen represents another variety of marble from the Gantts Quarries. It is similar in texture to the marble last described (588), but it lacks the creamy shade, having a watery white tint. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 106.49 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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