Preface • PRIKRYL, R. & TÖRÖK, Á. Natural stones for monuments: their availability for restoration and
Evaluation • SIEDEL, H. Alveolar weathering of Cretaceous building sandstones on monuments in Saxony,
Germany • FRONTEAU, G., SCHNEIDER-THOMACHOT, C., CHOPIN, E., BARBIN, V., MOUZE, D. &
PASCAL, A. Black-crust growth and interaction with underlying limestone microfacies • ANGELI, M., HÉBERT, R., MENÉNDEZ, B., DAVID, C. & BIGAS, J.-P. Influence of temperature and salt concentration on the salt weathering of a sedimentary stone with sodium sulphate • YU, S. & OGUCHI, C. T. Is sodium sulphate invariably effective in destroying any type of rock? • OGUCHI, C. T. & YUASA, H. Simultaneous wetting/drying, freeze/thaw and salt crystallization experiments of three types of Oya tuff • GILLHUBER, S., LEHRBERGER, G. & GÖSKE, J. Fire damage of trachyte: investigations of the Tepla´ monastery building stones • PEREIRA, D., PEINADO, M., YENES, M., MONTERRUBIO, S., NESPEREIRA, J. & BLANCO, J. A. Serpentinites from Cabo Ortegal (Galicia, Spain): a search for correct use as ornamental stones • MCCABE, S., SMITH, B. J.&WARKE, P. A. A legacy of mistreatment: conceptualizing the decay of medieval sandstones in NE Ireland • GOMEZ-HERAS, M., SMITH, B. J. & VILES, H. A. Oxford stone revisited: causes and consequences of diversity in building limestone used in the historic centre of Oxford, England • BECK, K. & AL-MUKHTAR, M. Evaluation of the compatibility of building limestones from salt crystallization experiments • NIJLAND, T. G., VAN HEES, R. P. J.& BOLONDI, L. Evaluation of three Italian tuffs (Neapolitan Yellow Tuff, Tufo Romano and Tufo Etrusco) as compatible replacement stone for Ro¨mer tuff in Dutch built cultural heritage • ANDRIANI, G. F. & WALSH, N. Petrophysical and mechanical properties of soft and porous building rocks used in Apulian monuments (south Italy) • UNTERWURZACHER, M., OBOJES, U., HOFER, R. & MIRWALD, P. W. Petrophysical properties
of selected Quaternary building stones in western Austria • FIGUEIREDO, C., FOLHA, R., MAURÍCIO, A., ALVES, C. & AIRES-BARROS, L. Contribution to the technological characterization of two widely used Portuguese dimension stones: the ‘Semi-rijo’ and ‘Moca Creme’ stones • LAHO, M., FRANZEN, C., HOLZER, R. & MIRWALD, P. W. Pore and hygric properties of porous limestones: a case study from Bratislava, Slovakia •
ASTNÁ, A., JEHLICKA, J. & PRIKRYL, R. Raman spectra of reduced carbonaceous matter as a tool for determining the provenance of marbles: examples of ‘graphitic’ marbles from Czech quarries • COOKE, L. The 19th century Corsi collection of decorative stones: a resource for the 21st century? • FRANGIPANE, A. Working for an electronic database of historical stone resources in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy) • KAMPFOVÁ, H. & PRIKRYL, R. Electronic database of historical natural stones of the Czech Republic: structuring field and laboratory data • ALLOCCA, F., CALCATERRA, D., CALICCHIO, G., CAPPELLETTI, P., COLELLA, A.,
LANGELLA, A. & DE’ GENNARO, M. Ornamental stones in the cultural heritage of Campania region (southern Italy): the Vitulano marbles • Index