Granite / Natural Stone

Granite is a coarse-grained igneous rock composed mainly of quartz, feldspar, micas and other minerals. It is formed from volcanic lava which has hardened under extreme pressure. Granite can be found not only in exotic places such as Brazil and Southern Africa but in countries all over the world including the Black Hills of South Dakota. Granite is the hardest structural stone and has been used as a building material since ancient times.

Granite is available in a striking array of colors and each piece is unique providing both beauty and elegance making it ideal for your countertops, vanities, fireplace surrounds, table tops and flooring.

Travertine

Travertine is a form of limestone that results from hot spring water penetrating up through underground limestone. When the water evaporates it leaves behind layers of dissolved limestone and other minerals, giving Travertine its banded appearance. Travertine is usually found in light shades of bieges and tans. Travertine has long been used as a building material. In fact, the Colosseum in Rome is the largest building in the world constructed mostly of travertine. Travertine can be used for a wide variety of applications such as floors, walls and countertops.

Limestone

Limestone is a very common sedimentary rock. Most marine limestone is formed from the mineral calcite which comes from the beds of evaporated seas and from sea animal shells. The calcite is derived mostly from the remains of organisms such as clams, snails, oysters and corals. These animals live on the bottom of the sea and when they die their shells accumulate into piles of shelly debris. This debris can then form beds of limestone. Great sources of limestone are reefs. Some limestone are formed in fresh-water environments associated with caves and springs or lakes. Bands of limestone can emerge from the Earth's sruface in spectacular rocky outcrops and islands. Limestone is usually white but may be colored by iron oxide making it brown, yellow, or red; and carbon making it blue, black or gray. Limestone has been used for centuries. The Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt is made of limestone. Today limestone is used for tile, flooring and countertops.

Marble

Marble is a metaphoric stone, which means that it is a rock that changes composition over time from one rock to another. Limestone or dolomite are softened over time under conditions of intense heat and pressure and then are recrystallized as marble.

Marble is composed of calcite, aragonite and dolomite crystals. and is found in many countries such as Belguim, France, Great Britian, Greece, Italy, India and Spain..

Marbles have similar characteristics to limestones and are typically used for the same applications, though, marbles are almost always more aesthetically valuable and available in much wider range of colors.

Marble is known to be softer than granite.

Onyx

Onyx is prehaps one of nature's most dazzling stones. It is a sedimentary rock that is formed inside caves as stalactites and stalagmites. Color of its bands range from white to almost every color except for shades of purple or blue. The most common varieties of onyx contain bands of white, tan and brown. Onyx is a crystocrstalline form of quartz. It is this formation process together with the size and uniformity of these crystals that contribute to the translucent property of most varieties of onyx. It is perhaps this transluscent property that makes the decorative appeal of onyx unsurpassed by any other material. Add the WOW factor to your project by "lighting it up" with an onyx counter top, floor or vessel bowl.

Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, metamorphic rock composed of quartz, muscovite, graphite and other minerals. Slate is actually formed from shale that has low heat and not very much pressure applied to it. It is mainly found in mountain areas, and is quarried in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Vermont, New York and throughout the world in such places as Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, North Wales, Newfoundland, Portugal, China and the Arctic. Slate is usually found in various shades of gray or black but can also be found in a variety of colors such as purple, green, blue and cyan. Slate tiles are often used for interior and exterior flooring, stairs, walkways and wall claddings.

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