Similar terraces of travertine are found to a height of fourteen hundred feet up the valley side.
At the Mammoth Hot Springs in the valley of the Gardiner River, Yellowstone National Park, beautiful terraces and basins of travertine (Fig.
The delicate work of the front, built of travertine robbed from the Coliseum, is much admired by those who do not seek for strength of light and shadow.
The huge blocks of travertine of which it is built were taken from the Coliseum.
The immense size of the blocks of travertine used in the building give it a solid grandeur.
But travertine and all stone of that class can stand injury whether from a heavy load laid upon it or from the weather; exposure to fire, however, it cannot bear, but splits and cracks to pieces at once.
Powerful thermal springs, similar to those mentioned above, issue from a travertine hill in the middle of the village, and fill a large basin; they were known in Roman times.
Denneville had been successful in working with material made in imitation of Travertine marble, used in many of the ancient buildings of Rome, very beautiful in texture and peculiarly suited to the kind of building that needed color.
He has been criticised for using it so much on the imitation Travertine for the reason that there is no stone of exactly this color.
On being ground and colored it could be used as a plaster and made to seem in texture so close to Travertine marble as to be almost indistinguishable.
Having gone thither, he designed the loggie of travertine in the first court of the Palace of S.
The first block of travertine was placed in situ at 8 P.
The altar, six metres long by three wide, built of travertinewith a coating of marble, stands in the middle of a paved area of considerable size.
The travertine facing is covered with inscriptions set up in honor of the great divinity of Rome by the kings and nations of the whole world.
That the geysers have been active in this region for thousands of years is shown in the deep deposits of silica and travertine that overspread extensive area.
Another peculiar rock formation beyond the Devil's Kitchen is the mass of travertine known as the White Elephant.
Without this hardness, the geyser action would be impossible, as the lime and travertine formations would not withstand the explosive violence.
Meneville and Virlet d'Aoust, in a Paper on the subject of the granular or oolitic travertine of Tezcuco in the Bulletin (1859) of the Geological Society of France.
So large is the quantity of these eggs, that at a spot where a little stream deposits carbonate of lime, a peculiar kind of travertine is forming which consists of masses of them imbedded in tho calcareous deposit.
The sedimentary formations, the deposits of liquid fluids from cold and hot springs, which we daily see producing the travertinestrata near Rome, and near Hobart Town in Van Diemen's Land, afford but a faint idea of the flotz formation.
The travertine of Van Diemen's Land (near Hobart Town) contains, according to Charles Darwin, remains of a vegetation that no longer exists.
The masonry is of solid travertine blocks, carefully cut and fitted.
Fragments of the travertine substructions of the scena still remain.
The materials of which these buildings consist are chiefly travertine and peperino, and their difference of style shows them to have been erected at different times, probably during the Age of the Republic.
An inscription cut in a block of travertine has been fixed in the right-hand parapet of the bridge.
Maria in Aquiro, which corresponded to the modern Chiesa degli Orfanelli; and part of a temple precinct built of travertine has been discovered in the Palazzo Cini, and is, perhaps, a relic of this temple.
Stefano, a ruin of the fifth century, and on the farm which bears the name of Arco Travertino from the travertine arches of the Claudian Aqueduct which cross it.
The central pavement now laid bare is of travertine flags, while the roads are marked by basaltic blocks.
The bridge was originally composed of three travertine arches, of which the one next to the left bank remains entire.
Some of the foundations of the bridge, and parts of the peperino and travertine stonework in the smaller arches, are ancient.
It is plain that these were originally faced with marble, as the exterior surface of the travertine is rough hewn.
The ancient quarries of travertine mentioned by Strabo, whence the stone of the Coliseum came, lie on the right of the road beyond the Solfatara, and the modern quarries on the left.
The front is faced with brick pilasters on travertine basements, in a mixed Doric and Ionic style, and there were formerly pediments over the windows.
This ruined wall consists of three arches composed of large blocks of peperino and travertine skilfully cut and joined without mortar and under-built by another arch, as if in order to enable the wall to bear a great weight.
Thus treated, the travertine lacked little of the radiance of marble, for it must be remembered that the Greeks painted even the Pentelic cornice of the Parthenon with red and blue.
In the flourishing period of old Poseidonia these travertinecolumns were coated with stucco, worked to a smooth surface, and brilliantly tinted to harmonise with the gay costumes of a Greek festival.
The lower story was built of rough-faced blocks of travertine stone, above which the masonry was smooth.
Four of them, cut in large letters in the travertine coping of the wall about the arena, commemorate the construction of seats.
On the top of the arch were three niches, in which stood three travertine statues; two of these, both of women, have been preserved, and are of indifferent workmanship.
Travertine was adopted towards the first century B.
Monuments of the utmost artistic and historic value have been destroyed for the purpose, the Colosseum alone being robbed of 2522 cart-loads of travertine in the fifteenth century.
As the art developed, cubes, lozenges, and hexagons of travertine and grey lava were cut and fitted together in simple patterns.
Both are outside the limits of the Campagna in the narrower sense; but similar tombs were found (though less accurately observed) in travertine quarries between Rome and Tivoli.
At the same time, hot springs, containing abundant carbonate of lime in solution, produced deposits of travertine at various points.
The massive bronze doors of the west facade lead into a corridor paneled in Italian travertine with a trim of Kasota stone.
The walls are of polished Montana travertine and the floors of gray-white Tennessee marble.
The graceful double stairway which rises across the corridor has marble balustrades and travertine newel posts.
Tons oftravertine or stalagmite, the so-called alabaster, have been quarried from some of the deposits, while a large number of flint nodules has been dug out of the cave-earth where they fell from the disintegrating limestone.
There were many fragments still imbedded in the matrix, which wastravertine rather than stalagmite.
On the right this was covered with travertine slightly mixed with earth and clay; on the left, above it and also at one place within it, was a coarse gritty earth fallen from the roof but not converted into a compact travertine.
They also claim that blocks of conglomerate and travertine 5 to 10 feet in each dimension have formed from "drip" within their recollection; which, if true, would prove these persons to be almost contemporaneous with the cave men.
On top, farther in, there is much travertine or stalagmite; in some places it extends entirely across the floor.
A section showed loose dry earth, some of it cemented by drip from the roof until about as hard as lump chalk; then compact clayey earth, also with travertine in small lumps; below this the gravel and sand.
There was also some travertine in small lumps here and there through the clay, and above it was a mass fully 2 feet thick at one side of the trench but running out before it reached the other side.
A stroll through the flower carpets of the South Gardens, amidst the many balustrade lighting Hermae, discloses a wealth of good architectural sculpture, which in itstravertine execution is doubly appealing.
The basic tone of the travertine furnishes a very rich foundation for the other colors added.
The artistic value of the Travertine lies in its beautiful expression of architecture as well as of sculpture.
The travertine marble has nowhere been used more effectively than in just such details.
The natural Travertine is a sedimentary deposit dating back, it is claimed, to the glacial ages.
The coloring is insipid, and altogether not in keeping, in its extreme coldness, with the happy warmth of the travertine surrounding it.
The tall, slender shaft, a column of travertine by day and a column of light by night, supports a sphere upon which is poised a statue typifying the dawn of day.
They set snugly against the pink panel just over the flaring basin of travertine wherein the water trickles.
The brilliancy of design is heightened by the color scheme of green and ivory used upon the lattice work and travertine material.
Terra cotta, mellow in tone, is the color which has been used upon the travertine material of the columns, and the walls flanking the majestic array of pillars are painted a warm pink.
The simple dignity of the plain travertine wall surfaces is heightened by tile-covered cornices terminated by pavilions.
The Frenchman pointed to the travertine walls of a prison-like house on the farther side of the piazza.
The travertine is also of a coarse grain and porous texture, not splintering into points and edges, but gradually corroding by natural decay.
Travertine stone was quarried in the plains of Tivoli at places now called Le Caprine, Casal Bernini, and Il Barco.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travertine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
