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Apennines
The environmental impact of Carrara's marble quarries
Discover how Michelangelo came to carve the David from a badly blocked piece of Carrara marble
Watch white and colored marble quarried in Bulgarian mountains and transported for fabrication
Learn how some of the world's finest marble is quarried and processed in Carrara, Italy
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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.
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