Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. rock (inorganic material)
8. metamorphic rock
9. marble (rock)
10. [marble by color or pattern]
11. white marble

Anotations

Scope note:

A coarse-textured white marble that is nearly pure calcium carbonate; it was used to build the first 152 feet of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC. It is quarried in Texas, Maryland, not in the state of Texas.