What is cream marfil, travertine and granite stone?
• Cream marfil stone is the same material as marble. Marble is simply changed limestone, or to use the technical term, metamorphic limestone. Limestone is made up of sea shells and bones of sea creatures from millions of years ago. The calcium in the bones & shells combined with carbon dioxide in the water to form calcium carbonate, which is the basic mineral structure of all limestone and marble. Cream marfil is formed medium dense with pores. • Travertine also began as limestone, which over time, through geological shifting, has found its way deep in the earth. The porous nature of limestone makes it a small body of standing water called Aquifers. This is the water of ice age melting, which sank below and was absorbed by limestone. With the earth’s inner core the water rises as steam and hot pressurized water that forms hot mud baths. This rising hot water dissolves the limestone and brings with it a small particle from below, forming mud beds on the surface. If enough time is allowe
