This natural stone industry glossary provides a collection of industry terms that define many products and technical terms.
Marble stone terms.
This term is actually a misnomer as it includes an obvious contradiction of terms.
Anchor types for stonework include those made of flat stock straps dovetails and round stock rod cramp rod anchor eyebolt and dowel.
A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.
Natural stone industry glossary glossary is usually defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge.
Most marble is made into either crushed stone or dimension stone.
Stone is naturally occurring earth material.
Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.
Dimension stone is produced by sawing marble into pieces of specific dimensions.
Crushed stone is used as an aggregate in highways railroad beds building foundations and other types of construction.
See engineered stone and cultured marble.