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Photo courtesy of the knoxville museum of art in the downtown knoxville u s.
The four eagles that decorate the top of the columns weigh five and a half tons each.
Tennessee pink marble is a kind of pink marble quarried in united states.
The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation 5 and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties.
Tennessee marble is abundant but only found here in east tennessee.
While tennessee marble is not true marble its crystalline nature lends it a strong resemblance to marble especially when polished.
While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades.
Tennessee pink marble is featured on the facade of the knoxville museum of art.
Quarried block of pink tennessee marble tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in east tennessee in the southeastern united states.