Red Travertine Marble

Introduce a touch of luxury to your space with Red Travertine Marble. Its unique red veining adds a bold and elegant flair to any room. Made from natural stone, this durable and timelessly beautiful marble is a perfect choice for countertops, flooring, or accent walls. Enjoy the benefits of a high-end look without sacrificing durability.

Red travertine marble has been popular for a period of time and is very popular among Chinese people. When I was working in a large stone company in Shenzhen, I had orders for red travertine marble projects for almost 2 years. The travertine projects from south to north were overwhelming. The number is not small. In the years when travertine was popular, everyone was blindly following the trend. Due to lack of understanding and understanding of the characteristics of travertine, travertine was used regardless of occasion and environment, which resulted in many places where travertine should not be used. Stone is counterproductive. Not only did it fail to receive a good decorative effect, but it also played a destructive effect on the decorative environment. It cost a lot of money to deal with the diseased travertine. No matter how good the decorative effect of travertine is, it has two fatal weaknesses. One is the influence of the holes on the surface on the decorative effect; the other is the strength of travertine is low, and most of the travertine strength is not up to the strength of the building decoration. Claim. However, in the crazy age of travertine popularity, few people seem to pay attention to these two points, so that many travertine garbage projects have appeared in China.

To understand these two weaknesses of red travertine marble, it is necessary to know the basic knowledge of red travertine marble.

Travertine is named because there are many holes on the surface of the stone. The scientific name of the stone is tuff or travertine. Commercially, it is classified as a marble type. Travertine is generally divided into white travertine and beige travertine. There are two shades of color. Some are called yellow travertine and white travertine. The English name is red travertine marble, which is directly translated as tuff or travertine. Travertine is named after carbonate minerals that have gas during the deposition process and formed many pores.

Red travertine marble is a calcareous material precipitated from carbonate-containing spring water (usually hot springs) under atmospheric conditions. The specific formation is that the circulating groundwater containing carbon dioxide takes away a large amount of calcium carbonate in the solution. When the local sewage reaches the surface of the spring water, some carbon dioxide is released and condensed in the sedimentary layer of calcium carbonate, forming a rare occurrence. The air bubbles (holes), and thus have travertine. Unlike limestone precipitation in the ocean, tuff is mostly deposited rapidly in rivers, lakes, and ponds. This rapid deposition prevents organic matter and gas from being released, resulting in beautiful textures. But the disadvantage is that travertine will also produce internal fissure delamination, which weakens its strength in line with the grain direction. Because tuff has holes, its unit density is not high, so it is suitable for covering materials, but not suitable for structural materials and basic materials of buildings. Travertines generally include Roman travertine, Iranian travertine and Turkish travertine. Roman travertine is the higher end of travertine, with darker color, more obvious texture, and better material. This type of stone can be polished and has obvious texture characteristics. The bending strength is anisotropic and the texture direction is perpendicular (strong direction). The bending strength is about 6MPa, some of which exceed 7MPa; the bending strength of the parallel grain direction (weak direction) is about 4MPa, the material and pattern are sometimes about 5MPa, and sometimes there are extremely low not exceeding 1MPa.

In addition to yellow travertine, there are many kinds of green, white, purple, red, silver gray, pink, brown, golden yellow and so on. Henan also produces caves.