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From: Kay Robinson <>
Subject: Re: If you can't find the MI.....
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 11:26:28 +0100
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:18:04 +0100, Keith Jackson
<> wrote:

>Kay Robinson wrote:
>>
>> >Sorry to say but Ashford Black Marble is a type of bituminous limestone
>> >not true marble at all. :-))
>>
>> Which, according to my encyclopedia, is exactly what 'marble' is!
>> Although other rocks of a similar hardness are often called 'marble'.
>
>Err..... Not really. Marble and limestone are both chemically calcium
>carbonate but they're not the same rock and hardness has nothing to do
>with it. Limestone is a sedimentary rock, laid down in still water -
>fresh or salt. Marble is the same material but after it's been
>metamorphosed by heat and pressure so that it becomes crystalline.

Err..Isn't that about what I said? Maybe not as clearly stated :-)

Kay

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