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Geochemistry and Archaeological Geology of the Carrara Marble, Carrara, Italy

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The Carrara marble of Hettangian age outcrops in the Apuane Alps, which are located along the Adriatic Coast in Northern Italy. The marble has been quarried for twenty-two centuries beginning in Roman times and has been used for statuary and as a building stone.

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  1. United States Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Cortland Street, Atlanta, GA, 30365, USA

    Nancy E. Dean

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  1. Department of Geology, University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA, USA

    Norman Herz

  2. Department of Archaeology, N.F.S.R. and Catholic University of Leuven, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Marc Waelkens

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Dean, N.E. (1988). Geochemistry and Archaeological Geology of the Carrara Marble, Carrara, Italy. In: Herz, N., Waelkens, M. (eds) Classical Marble: Geochemistry, Technology, Trade. NATO ASI Series, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7795-3_34

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