Geologic upheavel then provided tremendous pressure to create mountains and hardened the shale into slate. This pressure cystallized the particles at right angles to the pressure thereby causing the grain of the slate.
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Slate is a metamorphic rock created some 500 million years ago. It began as sediments that were buried into deep layers forming shale.
Geologic upheavel then provided tremendous pressure to create mountains and hardened the shale into slate. This pressure cystallized the particles at right angles to the pressure thereby causing the grain of the slate. |
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This layering has different minerals and elements accounting for the various colors, such as hematite for red slate, chlorite for green, and carbon and graphite for the gray and black. Purple and light brown result from iron oxide.
Each and every piece is totally different from every other in its loveliness, almost reminding one of space photos taken of nebulae many light years away. |
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Recherche colors of various slate pieces are chosen for unique table tops by Infinity Company. Every one-of-a-kind Infinity Coffee Table bears slate whose exquisite beauty is already half a billion years old!
The slate material is ideal for a table top since it does not absorb liquid. Now, you can have your choice of Infinity Tables, and no one else in the world can have one exactly like yours. The woodwork in the tables is Thuja Plicata (Red Cedar, Canoe Cedar) which is beautiful, has good workability, good finishing qualities and good durability indoors or outdoors. |
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