Yule marble shear strength through "bedding Plane"

Quoted text begins.Hi, Simon, thanks for your response!
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You say:

Quoted text begins.crystal growth in any stone takes
place normal (at 90 degrees) to the
direction of crystal-growing forces.
... the resultant
crystal structure has little to do with
the original bedding direction.
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This is very interesting to me. But I don't think I can understand it. It
is very mysterious. You are saying the crystal growth responds in some why
to the pressure it is created by. Would the crystal be longer through the
dimension normal to the pressure? When split marble sometimes seems to show
lines of grain in ridges. If the grains where all longer in one direction
and all oriented likewise that would certainly suggest strength.

Quoted text begins.Veining in sedimentary and metamorphic
rocks comes from deposited minerals
that are then dissolved in solution and
transported along bedding planes
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In the case of the Yule, there is structural weakness oriented through the
same plane as the veining. Are they marbles where this is not the case?
When looking to split a piece of marble I look to the veining for
information on how the stone would like to split.

Also then in the case of the Yule the common phrase of "splitting along the
bedding plane" would be misinformed. For the splitting plane would be the
one normal to metamorphic pressures, not the plane in which the sediment was
bedded.

Quoted text begins.formation makes me feel about as
insignificant as a plankton in the
grand scheme of things.
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First there was a mountain, then there was no mountain, then there was...

Lazy Bill