Weathered marble gravestone (Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio, USA) 2 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Weathered marble gravestone (Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio, USA) 2 / James St. John
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Gravestones (a.k.a. headstones / tombstones) in modern American cemeteries are usually made of "granite" - a term in the retail trade for any hard stone that will take a fine polish. Geologically, some are granites and some are not. In the 1800s, many gravestones were made of marble, a crystalline-textured metamorphic rock composed of calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3). Rainwater is naturally acidic (slightly), with carbonic acid - H2CO3. Over time, marble will slowly dissolve in rainwater. Older marble gravestones typically have poorly legible carvings.This example has an 1884 date.Locality: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Licking County, east-central Ohio, USA |
| 撮影日 | 2024-05-25 14:59:16 |
| 撮影者 | James St. John |
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