Limestone Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate: CaCO3).

. Limestone often contains variable amounts of silica in the form of chert or flint, as well as varying amounts of clay, silt and sand as disseminations, nodules, or layers within the rock. Uses of Limestone Limestone cropping The Great Pyramid of Giza. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the structure is made entirely from limestone Marble Marble is a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It is extensively used for sculpture, as a building material, and in many other applications. The word 'marble' is colloquially used to refer to many other stones that are capable of taking a high polish. Characteristics of Marble Pure white marble is the result of metamorphism of very pure limestone. The characteristic swirls and veins of many coloured marble varieties are usually due to various mineral impurities such as clay, silt (soil or rock derived granular material of a specific grain size), sand, iron oxides, or chert (a fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock) which were originally present as grains or layers in the limestone. Green coloration is often due to serpentine resulting from originally high magnesium limestone or dolostone with silica impurities. These various impurities have been mobilized and recrystallized by the intense pressure and heat of the metamorphism. Marble Taj Mahal, world-famous monument made of marble Granite Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granites are usually medium to coarse grained, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as porphyry. Granites can be pink to dark gray or even black, depending on their chemistry and mineralogy. Granite is nearly always massive, hard and tough, and it is for this reason it has gained widespread use as a construction stone. The average density of granite is 2.75 gcm-3 with a range of 1.74 gcm-3 to 2.80 gcm-3. The word granite comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a crystalline rock.

Composition of Granite SiO2 72.04% Al2O3 14.42% K2O 4.12% Na2O 3.69% CaO 1.82% FeO 1.68% Fe2O3 1.22% MgO 0.71% TiO2 0.30% P2O5 0.12% MnO 0.05%

Granite Quarrying granite