DOLOMITIC MARBLE
Dolomitic marble is a crystalline-textured, ~monomineralic metamorphic
rock. It is composed of dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2).
Dolomitic marbles form by metamorphism of dolostones. These rocks are
identified by effervescing (bubbling) in acid when powdered. Some
dolomitic marbles have a noticeable tremolite component (Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2).
Dolomitic marble (10.3 cm across) - glacial clast derived from Upper
Pleistocene till in Granville, Ohio, USA. Specimen found & owned by
Ryan Martyn.
Stromatolitic metadolostone (15.2 cm across) from the Kona Dolomite
(Paleoproterozoic, ~2.20-2.29 b.y.) of the Marquette area, Upper Peninsula (UP)
of Michigan, USA. Some metamorphosed dolostones are referred to as metadolostones.
This one, from the Precambrian of northern Michigan, was originally a dolostone
having stromatolitic laminations.
Stromatolites are large, layered structures built up by mats of
photosynthetic cyanobacteria in very shallow water facies.
Specimen owned by Tabatha Beaver & Matthew
Hartman.