Outdoor Marble Sculpture in Norway

Quoted text begins.Is outdoor marble sculpture in Norway a really bad idea?
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Nigel,
I live near Buffalo NY, and have seen a lot of weather damage to old marble
monuments in cemeteries. The most worn are the oldest, 150 to 200 years old.
Part of the problem is that the only marble available at the time was the
softest and most weather sensitive, vermont marble. Presently , marble is
either not allowed by the cemetery, or the dealers just don't offer marble
monuments. Any way you look at it, marble is not used for monuments because
of the poor quality of the old vermont marble.
There are many hard, weather resistant kinds of marble available today, but
the monument industry in the northeast US has gone to granite because of its
cost, availability and its weather resistant qualities.
It might be a good idea to find out what kinds of stone are used in the area
where your sculpture would be. In the states there are some kinds of marble
that is more water resistant than most granites. Georgia Marble and
Tennessee Pink and the first ones that come to my mind. I wouldn't hesitate
to use either, outdoors because they have a proven track record.
Granite may be the preferred medium in Norway because it is there,
beautiful, and of high quality.
Blue Pearl granite for example.

Good luck,
George Graham