Cockeysville marble

Esquema

Getty AAT: Materials (matter)

Jerarquía

<materials by composition> > inorganic material > rock > metamorphic rock > marble (rock) > <marble by color or pattern> > white marble

Descripción

A fine grained, magnesium-rich white marble from Cockeysville, Maryland; it has a few pale streaks or bands which give an effect of pale gray. One of the most popular types of marble used in nineteenth-century buildings in Washington, D.C., it comprised the top two thirds of the Washington Monument as well as the monolithic columns of the Capitol building extensions.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300011577

Otros términos

  • Cockeysville-marmer [nl]
  • mármol de Cockeysville [es]
  • marble, Cockeysville [en]