| P number: | P576158 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Pink Tennessee. Godfrey Quarries, Blount Co., Tennessee. |
| Description: | Label name: Pink Tennessee. Alternative name: Roseal. Specimen description: Pink and white fragments with a fine black vein. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 636 ROSEAL. Godfrey Quarries, Blount Co., Tennessee. Resting on the bed which yields the Champion Pink lies a deposit of marble which is seldom more than six feet thick and never exceeds ten feet. This variety, as the specimen shows, is fine in texture, and contains veins and patches of white and pink calcite, together with a few black veins. The pink calcite appears to have had a coralline origin. Thirty-six columns composed of this marble may be seen in Newark Library (1898). The pilasters of Indianapolis Post Office, built in 1904, are also made of it. |
| 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: | 176.28 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Stone and the built heritage (Building Britain) |
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