Methodology of analytical study for provenance determination of calcitic, calcite-dolomitic and impure marbles from historical quarries in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The present provenance study was focused on marbles from historical quarries of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic). A combination of mineralogical-petrographic, geochemical and physical methods has been tested i.e. optical microscopy (OM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), petrographic image analysis (PIA), cathodoluminescence (CL), stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA), Raman microspectrometry (RM) and bulk magnetic susceptibility (MS).

Keywords

• Cathodomicrofacies
• petrographic data
• Raman data
• stable isotopes
• marbles
• provenance study
• Czech Republic