Kashmir White
The close-up view of each stone type shows a relatively true image of the crystalline structure and the colouring. This is suitable for grained slabs to a limited extend only. In regard to the colour matching, please take an original sample of the stone from your furniture store as a basis.
Petrography
Kashmir White belongs to the granulite group which, within the metamorphic hard rock group are exceptional. Granulite is bright, almost mica-free garnet gneiss originating from the lower earth crust. It is a hard rock of fine to medium-sized grain with a lightly indicated streaky structure. The basic white-grey, ivory-coloured or lightly green basic shade is only interrupted by dark red garnet crystals of up to 1 cm in size and rarely by black, fine biotite streaks.
Petrogenesis
Granulite contains garnet crystals which are indicator minerals of a high-grade metamorphosis (rock transformation). During primeval times of the earth, silicate-rich paragneiss and mica slate were re-crystallised in a depth of 20-30 km in the transition zone of the earth crust/ mantle at a pressure of 5 to 10 kilo bar and a temperature of around 1,000 to 1,200 °C over a period of millions of years.
| Price group | 3 |
|---|---|
| Colour | yellow |
| Hardness | Hard Stone |
| Structure Type | Slab with Irregular Pattern |
| Outdoor | suitable |
| Synonyms | Bianco Kashmere White |
| Group | Metamorphite |
| Petrographic Assignment | Gneiss |
| Age | 1.4 billion years (Precambrian) |
| Deposit | Indien |
| Novelty | No |
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