Saubsdorf marble
The Saubsdorfer marble (Czech: Supíkovický mramor ) is in Supíkovice in Czech Republic found. It is a metamorphic rock (transformation rock). The first quarries were created to Saubsdorf around 1560 to lime kilns in lime burning.
Under Supíkovice (Saubsdorf) a 2 km long marble vein runs from Spitzstein to the end of the village. This marble is mostly white to white-blue, more rarely yellowish, gray, brownish, reddish and greenish, partly solid-colored, partly beautifully veined, striped, spotted or cloudy. If this marble was streaked brown, it became “ Fantastico ”, if it was streaked green, it became “ Wilder Marmor ” (a silicate marble ) and if it was colored light to red-brown by phlogopite and hematite , it was called “ Passioflora ”. Marbles that are colored green by serpentine belong to the ophicalcites. This extremely rare type of marble was also called " grandfather green ". The gray tints come from graphite . As a result, there was a large variety of marble in a small marble deposit.
This fine to coarse-grained marble consists of almost 99 percent calcium carbonate . Other minerals can be found in small quantities in Saubsdorf marble: magnetite , muscovite , pyrite , titanite , arsenic gravel , dialag .
In stratigraphic terms of marble is the Vrbenská - Group of Moravo-Silesikum .
The marble was used for door and window frames, curbstones, stable cribs, tombs and stone carving . Today there is a quarry in operation near the village. The material extracted there is used for tombs, restoration purposes, stairs and furniture parts.
See also
literature
- Franz Kiegeler: The Saubsdorf area under the sign of its geological history , in: Saubsdorf, ed. vd Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Gemeinde Saubsdorf, Nöth, Augsburg 1980, p. 38 ff.
- Václav Rybařík: Ušlechtilé stavební a sochařské Kameny České Republiky . Hořice v. Podkrkonoší 1994, pp. 157-158 ISBN 80-900041-5-6
Individual evidence
- ^ M. Opletal (ed.): Geologická mapa ČR, List 14-22 Jeseník . Prague (ČGU) 1995.