Tennessee pink marble is featured on the facade of the knoxville museum of art.
Tn pink marble.
The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation 5 and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties.
Photo courtesy of the knoxville museum of art in the downtown knoxville u s.
Post office there are six types of marble used in the building design.
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While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades.
The four eagles that decorate the top of the columns weigh five and a half tons each.
We readily keep varieties of tennessee pink quaker gray cedar champlain black and other domestic stones at our headquarters in friendsville tn.
While tennessee marble is not true marble its crystalline nature lends it a strong resemblance to marble especially when polished.
Tennessee marble is abundant but only found here in east tennessee.
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