 | Maryland Geological Survey - Geology - 1898 - 628 pages
...surface of one of these rocks is of a lighter color than the natural rock face or polished surface. The impact of the hammer breaks up the granules on...surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. Often when a piece of work of this nature is exposed, the contrast between hammered and polished work... | |
 | Maryland Geological Survey - Geology - 1898 - 626 pages
...surface of one of these rocks is of a lighter color than the natural rock face or polished surface. The impact of the hammer breaks up the granules on...surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. Often when a piece of work of this nature is exposed, the contrast between hammered and polished work... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Stone - 1898 - 98 pages
...surface of one of these rocks is of a lighter color than the natural rock face or polished surface. The impact of the hammer breaks up the granules on...surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. Often when a piece of work of this nature is exposed, the contrast between hammered and polished work... | |
 | Maryland Geological Survey - Geology - 1898 - 628 pages
...surface of one of these rocks is of a lighter color than the natural rock face or polished surface. The impact of the hammer breaks up the granules on...surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. Often when a piece of work of this nature is exposed, the contrast between hammered and polished work... | |
 | Maryland Geological Survey - 1898 - 646 pages
...surface of one of these rocks is of a lighter color than the natural rock face or polished surface. The impact of the hammer breaks up the granules on...surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. Often when a piece of work of this nature is exposed, the contrast between hammered and polished work... | |
 | Maryland Geological Survey - Geology - 1898 - 630 pages
...the light penetrating the stone is absorbed, and the effect upon the eye is that of a more or loss complete absence of light or darkness. Obviously then...surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. Often when a piece of work of this nature is exposed, the contrast between hammered and polished work... | |
 | Geology - 1907 - 1026 pages
...light penetrating the stone is absorbed, and the effect upon the eye is that of a more or less mmplete absence of light, or darkness. Obviously, then, the...cases where it is wished, as in a monument, to have a jiolished die, surrounded by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. The ordinary granites, while... | |
 | Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Joseph Hartshorn Perry - Geology - 1907 - 700 pages
...reflecting surfaces are removed, the light penetrating the stone is ahsorhed, and the effect ujion the eye is that of a more or less complete absence...by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. The ordinary granites, while taking a high polish, do not afford such strong contrasts between hammered... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1907 - 244 pages
...light penetrating the stone is absorbed, and the effect upon the eye is that of a more or less compiete absence of light, or darkness. Obviously, then, the...by a margin of hammered work to give contrast. The ordinary granites, while taking a high polish, do not afford such strong contrasts between hammered... | |
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... instead of absorbed, and the resultant effect upon the eye is that of whiteness. The darker color of a polished surface is due merely to the fact that through careful grinding all these irregularities and reflecting surfaces are removed, the light... 
