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Negro Marquina
Limestone · Spain
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GEOLOGICAL REFERENCE REGIONSpain
Alicante · Monte Coto
38.39°, -0.77° · View on globe ↗What makes it distinct
A dramatic Spanish commercial marble whose geology is limestone.
Selection & use
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Powder rooms, walls and graphic floors
Etching and light scratching show strongly on black polished fields.
Geology & trade names
Black fossiliferous limestone sold as marble
Negro Marquina · Nero Marquina
Negro is Spanish and Nero is Italian; both spellings circulate in U.S. and Canadian catalogs. Similar black-and-white stones from other countries are not automatically authentic Marquina material.