Limestone

Located in Southern Arizona, Kartchner Caverns stands as a magnificent tribute to the incredible power of water in the creation of Earth’s landforms. This cave is known as a living cave, meaning that formations are still being created within the cavern walls. Inside Kartchner, it is quite moist and humid, both being common characteristics that living caves share. Today, water stick drips and trickles inside the caves, shaping the caverns even more. The cave, now knows as Kartchner Caverns, was discovered in 1974 by two men named Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts. The duo had been searching for an untouched, undiscovered cave for years. When they stumbled upon a sinkhole in the ground, what they found was exactly that. Inside the sinkhole, they…

Marble is a metamorphic rock that can be found in lots of places, this rock has many uses in our everyday life. This rock can be found in many common household items. There are many different colors of marble that are found all over the world. Colorful marble is discolored due to how it was formed. When marble is formed from a limestone that has few impurities, the marble turns white. If the marble contains clay minerals, iron oxides, or bituminous minerals, the marble will turn a different…

It is an adaptable material because it can be cut into different sizes for different purposes. Limestone is a material that can be recycled and reused. People often recycle crushed stones in order to use in other projects. Buildirect sells limestone from the modern global center of limestone tile production in Turkey. Turkey holds close to 40% of the total natural stone reserves in the world. The embodied energy of stone is low because very little process energy is involved: the stone is…

Caesar Stone was founded by Amos Amir, Gili Amir's father and CEO of Caesaria Marble, Sdot Yam's floor tiles plant, in the 1970s. Amir had come to the conclusion that the days of Terrazzo flooring, had passed. So he began searching for the next generation of flooring material that was thinner, lighter, and stronger, while being less labour intensive and polluting to produce. …??? Caesar stone is a stone manufactured to create surfaces such as benchtops, splashbacks, bathroom vanities, wall…

Bat Guano Caves The best cave for the students to visit is the Lava River Cave. This is based on the diversity of the bats in the area, the accessibility of the cave and area, and the effect that white nose syndrome, or white nose syndrome, has had on the species of bats that live in the area. This cave in Coconino National Forest is close to the Northern Arizona University, and is by far the best choice for a class studying bats and white nose syndrome of the options given, which are the…

MARBLE Marble is created from limestone. It is characteristically soft and a metamorphic stone that can be polished. Homeowners must take special care of their marble, because it can be easily stained and etched by acidic compounds. There are many different forms of marble across the globe, and that is one of the reasons it has remained so popular throughout the years. Marble has an elegance that has passed the test of time. It was used throughout the ancient world because it was soft enough…

builders." Then came the transportation of the limestone blocks. Many of these limestones have believed to been mined out of quarries near the pyramids using tools such as chisels. Then the limestone would be sent to the site of the pyramids using a large amount of man force. However, seeing how the pyramids were built using over 2.5 million blocks of limestone. This would be a very tedious and difficult process for the Egyptians to accomplish in the short amount of time that they had. Now new…

that could happen at any moment . Sinkholes occur when the limestone beneath us breaks away by acidic rain and eventually the ground gives creating an open hole in our earth`s surface. Chemistry can relate to chemical reactions, one of the chemical reactions that occur is the creation of acidic rain. It can also relate to sublimation after the sinkhole occur, and to the rocks in a sinkhole and what they 're made of. One of the chemical reactions that occur that is based upon hydrogen and carbon…

Procedure Using a scale, measure the mass of each of the 6 limestone rocks and write down on the data table. Using the 200 mL, fill the first beaker with 200 mL of tap water. Set aside. Fill the second beaker with 150 mL of tap water and 50 mL of carbonated water. Mix it for 10 seconds. Set beaker aside. Fill the third beaker with 100 mL of tap water and 100 mL of carbonated water. Mix it for 10 seconds. Set the beaker aside. Mix the fourth beaker with 150 mL of carbonated water and 50 mL with…

cooling of magma. While it is a suitable stone to build structures, nowadays granite is used almost only used as an interior or exterior covering. Advantages offered by granite are that it is stain resistant, it is a sanitary (Non-Porous) surface, it is heat resistant, and in general, it is abrasion resistant. That said, while this material is very hard and crystalline in nature, some granites are resin-treated to enhance the color. For this reason, many types of granite have lower abrasion…