Talk:List of types of marble

Tennessee marble and others

While so-called "Tennesee marble" is considered a type of limestone by geologists (though compressed, it is not metamorphic), it is self-evidently considered a type of "marble" by almost everyone else and thus is appropriate to be included in the body of this list. Anyone who clicks on the link to read more about this material will immediately be alerted that geologists consider Tennessee marble to be a limestone. As an alternative to excluding some materials, which makes the list less useful for lay readers, I've moved the items from the "False marbles" section into the main list, and included notations in endnotes to give the correct mineral identification. • Astynax ^talk 19:56, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

"Potomac Marble"

Is an aggregate found near Washington DC and so is widely used in public buildings there. It is not a true marble of course. Nonetheless, we ought to have an article on it. Perhaps one of the contributors to this article could start one. --''Paul, in Saudi'' (talk) 08:53, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Fixes that need to be done

First, English "marbles" that have endnotes, but lack entries on the list are Ashford Black Marble and Dent Marble. Second, Enlgish Cotham Marble needs to be added. Finally, endnotes are not consistently used for rock types called "marble," but are geologically speaking rock types other then marbles. Paul H. (talk) 15:40, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Geology

Many of the rocks listed here are limestones (sedimentary rocks) and not marbles (metamorphic rocks). The name of the dimension stones does not necessarily indicate the correct geological classification. Lysippos (talk) 09:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)