{"id":2008,"date":"2020-11-02T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/what-is-marble\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:07:52","slug":"what-is-marble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/what-is-marble\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Marble?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In our today&#8217;s article &#8211; a concise one &#8211; we will quickly focus on one question: What is marble, actually?<\/p>\n\n<p>Marble is what we call a metamorphic rock. That means marble does not start as marble itself but has a so-called parent rock.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the case of marble, the parent rock is limestone or dolostone. Both these rocks are chemical sedimentary rocks (and not igneous rocks) that have themselves undergone the process of lithification.<\/p>\n\n<p>How do these turn into marble, then? Under conditions of high pressure and temperature, the minerals of limestone and dolostone are compressed; however, foliation, i.e. the process of reshaping the minerals into elongated, linear forms, does not take place; instead, they become harder and form a smooth, continuous body: marble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our today&#8217;s article &#8211; a concise one &#8211; we will quickly focus on one question: What is marble, actually? Marble is what we call a metamorphic rock. That means marble does not start as marble itself but has a so-called parent rock. In the case of marble, the parent rock is limestone or dolostone. [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114],"tags":[165,116,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kallisthos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}