The large scale exploitation of Carrara quarries begins in the ... is still alive and looks at the future within the only and clear cut territorial area represented by the marble basins of Carrara.

The basins varied in size, and some were fitted with tile mortar, while others were decorated or lined with a marble slab ... from the basins flowed into a large collector built between two ...

The true Marble Falls of the Fort Worth basin is a very impure calcareous rock that contains a remarkably large percentage of silica in the form of sponge spicules, quartz sand, and-or ...

SANTA CRUZ — An environmental group sued the state Wednesday over a plan to give Big Basin State Park a makeover, saying the agency should do more to protect an endangered seabird that nests ...

Handle of a footed marble basin decorated with Silenoi heads. The basin was probably given to Herod as a gift from Emperor Augustus or his second in command, Marcus Agrippa, 1st century BCE.

Abstract: This paper illustrates both the pros and cons on the protection and development of several typical large river basins in the world. In Europe, people used to focus on the development of ...

Rémy Auray National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research The basins varied in size, and some were fitted with tile mortar, while others were decorated or lined with a marble slab ...