Marble Sphere and Spiral

This is an entry for the Marble Texture Challenge going on in .  Here's the link to the journal article about the Challenge: February 2018 Challenge: Marble TexturesThe challenge this month is an idea suggested by: :iconsnupi988:
Many of you will remember the Voroni texture challenge that ran last September and the wonderful Community Library of Voroni textures that was compiled from all the texture layers freely donated by participating members:

This month the plan is to do something very similar; creating and sharing marble textures!
The challenge is very simple: you may use any formulas and colourings you like to make your fractal images but you must include at least one marble texture somewhere in your image. Also: it is a condition of entry that you share the parameters for this texture layer with the community.
Please understand that this texture is to be freely given for anyone to use or modify as they see fit, they are under no obligation to credit you. To encourage a good range of textures you may submit up to SIX images and textures to the challenge this month! At the end of the challenge I will compile all subm

Here are my params:

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