1. Education

Travertine Picture Gallery

By , About.com Guide

Travertine is a young, porous form of limestone with an unusual origin and distinctive features. Learn more about its geology here. Its great variety and irregular layering and structure lend it to many different visual effects, and travertine stone has been favored by architects for centuries. As a practical matter, travertine is easily worked, light in weight, and a renewable resource in the long term.

Images 1-12 of 12

A rugged boulderIntroducing TravertineIn the act of formationTravertine Spring, CaliforniaTourist and geological attractionTravertine Springs, TurkeyWhere your decor comes fromTravertine Quarry, Turkey
Signature material of this popular destinationTravertine StoneA pristine leafprintFossils in TravertineA dense crust from a hot springHydrothermal Travertine, CaliforniaTowers near a dead lakeTufa Towers, Searles Lake, California
A hard carbonate spongeTufa Detail, Trona Pinnacles, CaliforniaRevealed by drawdownTufa Towers, Mono Lake, CaliforniaEvidence of a vanished lakeTravertine of Ancient Lake Cahuilla, CaliforniaA nubbly varietyTravertine, Salton Sea, California

©2012 About.com. All rights reserved.

A part of The New York Times Company.