Virginia Tech - VT Hokie Stone Rock Letters - LVT006 @ Virginia Rock Shop

Virginia Tech - VT Hokie Stone Rock Letters - LVT006
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Virginia Tech - VT Hokie Stone Rock Letters - LVT006

Virginia Tech - VT Hokie Stone Rock Letters
cut from Dolostone (Hokie Stone) collected from Stuarts Draft, Augusta County, Virginia
Hand cut and polished VT letters, for display, pendant, pins, or whatever you come up with!
Size: about -> height: 1" x wide: 2" x thick: 1/4"
Shades of flesh pink in mottled pattern

VT Letters cut from Hokie Stone
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VT Letters cut from Hokie Stone
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VT Letters cut from Hokie Stone
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Hokie Stone
Virginia Tech is built on a 100-year-old tradition that comes out of the same earth as the Appalachian Mountains that rest nearby. That tradition is Hokie Stone, a dolomite limestone that is which adorns the majority of buildings on the Torgerson Bridge Blacksburg campus. Unique to the Appalachian region of southern Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama, the Chepultepec and Kingsport Formation dolomite mined as Hokie Stone is a variety of limestone that can be found in muted shades of pink, red, gray, brown, and black. For more than a hundred years, Hokie Stone has been the main ingredient in the buildings that make up the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech.

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Hokie Stone + Gothic = Virginia Tech

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Thanks, David

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Added to our rock_shop on Monday 19 October, 2009.

Dolostone:
Dolostones are diagenetic, and/or possibly sedimentary, rocks. Dolostone is used in this document as part of my mission to discontinue the dual application of the mineral name to both the mineral and the rock. This breaks with the widespread traditional usage whereby rocks made up largely of the mineral dolomite are also called dolomite. (Alternatively, either rock dolomite or dolorock would seem more appropriate terms than continuing the dual usage.)
Colors - white, gray, tan, reddish, bluish, greenish, brownish
H. 3½ - 4
S.G.1.8-2.85
Light transmission - translucent (in thin pieces) to opaque
Luster - dull to pearly(polished)
Breakage - irregular to subconcoidal

from: R. V. Dietrich page

Hokie_Stone

"Hokie Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "

Virginia Tech is built on a 100-year-old tradition that comes out of the same earth as the Appalachian Mountains that rest nearby. That tradition is Hokie Stone, a dolomite limestone that is which adorns the majority of buildings on the Torgerson Bridge Blacksburg campus. Unique to the Appalachian region of southern Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama, the Chepultepec and Kingsport Formation dolomite mined as Hokie Stone is a variety of limestone that can be found in muted shades of pink, red, gray, brown, and black. For more than a hundred years, Hokie Stone has been the main ingredient in the buildings that make up the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech.

"Hokie Stone - Virginia Tech's Stone of Tradition "

In geology and oceanography, diagenesis is any chemical, physical, or biological change undergone by a sediment after its initial deposition and during and after its lithification, exclusive of surface alteration (weathering) and metamorphism. These changes happen at relatively low temperatures and pressures and result in changes to the rock's original mineralogy and texture. The boundary between diagenesis and metamorphism, which occurs under conditions of higher temperature and pressure, is gradational.

MARBLE, LIMESTONE, &DOLOSTONE