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Natural Stone Resources for Historical Monuments

Product Code: SP333
Series: GSL Special Publications - print copy
Author/Editor: Edited by R Prikryl and A Torok
Publication Date: 23 April 2010
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Natural stone is considered to be a versatile, durable and aesthetically pleasing building material. From the beginning of civilization, important structures and monuments have been built from, or based on, natural stone. Until the end of the nineteenth century, the use of local stone resources was mostly in balance with the local environment. Strict environmental legislation has resulted in the closing of many long-standing quarries in industrialized countries, which has led to a shortage of traditional stone varieties. This has caused problems for restoration practice. Cheap, imported stone from less industrialized countries has become more widely available in recent years.

Some of the issues related to built stone conservation and restoration covered by this volume are: the establishment of inventories of possible replacement stones; understanding the decay mechanism and use of preventive conservation methods for slowing down decay processes; evaluation of the properties of natural stone; and assessing the risks of using replacement stones of different qualities.

Type: Book
Ten Digit ISBN: 1-86239-291-9
Thirteen Digit ISBN: 978-1-86239-291-5
Publisher: GSL
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.95 kg

Contents

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

Reviews

Review by JoAnn Cassar


This review was featured in QJEGH vol 45

This book ends with a comprehensive index, which allows easy navigation through the contents. Each paper ends with numerous references, which will allow the reader to move above and beyond what is reported here to related areas of research. The well-written papers, in crisp easy-flowing language, are amply supported by numerous figures. It is a pity that some of the photographs are either too small or not sufficiently clear to suitably support the written text.

As a snapshot in time of research on natural stone used in historical monuments, this book is well worth reading by geologists and other scientists who study materials used in historical buildings and the mechanisms of their deterioration. Professionals seeking new sources of building stone, and stone for replacement purposes, should also find this volume useful

Thomas Hofmann
25.11.2019

This book illustrates a broad spectrum of aspects which should be kept in mind, when working with
historical building stones. Thus geology turns out as a discipline connecting architecture, history, meteorology and many other aspects of science.

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