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What is travertine?
Travertine is a type of natural stone formed through massive calcium carbonate, CaCO3,
and resulting
from deposition by springs or land rivers. Travertine is very porous but
consists of very fine grains, often carries beautiful
banded colors as the result of presence of iron compound or other impurities such as organics.
Travertine stone, sometime being called "travertine marble", "travertine
limestone" or even travertine granite, is also known as calc-sinter and calcareous tufa; when
used for decorative purposes, it's often referred as onyx marble and Mexican onyx.
Another nickname for travertine is
"Egyptian Oriental alabaster". .
Travertine color has significant variations within the same slab even the same
tile, but in general can be categorized
into beige cream or yellow (Chinese), gold and yellow
(Turkish), walnut, noce or noche, light white or ivory and red travertine
(Turkish). Travertine can be used for building applications such as fabricating floor tiles, wall tiles, countertops.
Certain types are available for carving
sinks, tables, fireplace mantel surrounds, columns, gazebos, fountains, statues etc.
Visit our "travertine for
carving" page for detail. Other
uses of building travertine include luxury decorations like floor medallion,
mosaic in the areas requiring strong natural ascents.
Amlink supplies the following custom travertine colors: |
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Featured Beige
quarry in N. China
large blocks available |
White Ivory
quarry in Mideast
large blocks not available |
Beige Classic
quarry in N. China
high color variations |
Crema Dark
quarry in N. China
contain banded veins |
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Rosa Golden
quarries in Turkey
contain regular vein |
Multicolor Yellow
quarries in Turkey
high color variations |
Multicolor Red
quarries in Turkey
blended colors in red tone |
Multicolor Flower
quarries in Turkey
large blocks available |
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Yellow Classic
quarries in Mideast
contains visible impurities |
Pink Light
quarries in Mideast
check for availabilities |
Golden Sunset
quarries in Mideast
check for availabilities |
Rosa Red
quarries in Mideast
contain scattered veins |
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Walnut Classic
quarry in N. China
large blocks available |
Red Classic
quarry in Turkey
certain color variations |
Beige Brown
quarry in Mideast
high color variations |
Noce Classic
quarry in N. China
large blocks available |
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Common Travertine Finishes |
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The finish
options, certainly more complicated than marble granite or limestone due
to its porous nature, include filled, unfilled, polished, honed, tumbled and
their combinations. "Unfilled honed" and "filled polished"
are by far the most popular choices. Filled and unfilled travertines have
their advantages and disadvantages. Unfilled travertines can best preserves
natural features but imposes difficulties on maintenance. To clean travertines
unfilled is rather difficult. In contrary, a filled finish makes travertine
maintenance much easier although it to certain extent eliminates travertine's
unique porous features. It takes the same approach to clean the filled
travertine as to clean marble granite. So when you are in the market to
buy building travertine, different finishes should be considered for different
applications, unfilled finish, for example, is not suitable for
floor tile or countertop fabrication, while tumbled travertine is mainly used for
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Honed
Random Cut
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Tumbled
Random Cut
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Filled Polished
Cross Cut
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Filled Polished
Linear Cut
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Honed Unfilled
Cross Cut
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Filled Honed
Normal Cut
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Chiseled
and Brushed |
Sandblasted
Random Cut
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