Adnet Marble is a multicolored suite of fossil-rich Austrian limestones quarried near Adnet in Salzburg, featuring reef limestones with densely packed fossils and fine-grained ammonite limestone. Visitors can observe Lower Jurassic marble deposits at active quarries like the Wimberger Quarry, seeing the geological formations and learning about a stone used since Roman times in major monuments including the tomb of Emperor Frederick III in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral.
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