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Granite

Granite is an igneous rock (formed by heat) found deep within the Earth’s crust. Once quarried, cut, polished, & sealed granite is nearly impervious to scratches, heat, etching, staining, or weathering. It is truly one of Mother Nature’s most versatile and beautiful creations.
Most granite is quarried in Brazil and India. However, stones from Russia, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Norway, and Finland are also available. The majority of these rocks are imported to the U.S.A. via Spain and Italy where they are cut and polished into the forms you see at your local slab yards.
The most common use for granite today is in building and remodeling projects such as vanity and kitchen countertops. The look, feel, durability, and re-sale value of a granite kitchen countertop is unmatched by any other solid surface material on today’s market.

Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock made out of limestone. When limestone is subjected to tremendous pressure for a long time (like if limestone is buried under a lot of other rock or an ocean) it gets squashed into marble. Marble is more beautiful than limestone and tougher, and so people like to use it for buildings.

But marble is also rarer, and more expensive. A lot of marble is white, but marble can come in all different colors. In ancient Greece and Rome, people used marble (especially white marble) to make statues, and they used colored marble in patterns to make hard floors that would last a long time. Different colors of marble came from different parts of the Roman empire – the purple came from Egypt, for instance – and so this was also a way of showing off, of pointing out how powerful Rome was, that the Senate could bring stone from all these faraway places that were ruled by Rome.

Sometimes people also used marble in thin sheets on the walls of fancy buildings like churches or palaces, to make a brick wall look fancier.