Chromatic weathering of black limestone quarried in Varenna (Lake Como, Italy)

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 68-77

  Marinoni, Nicoletta ^a   Pavese, Alessandro ^a,b   Riva, Angelo ^c   Cella, Fiorenza ^d   Cerulli, Tiziano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c AGIP SpA   (Italy)

^d Mapei SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black limestone; Chemical weathering; Chromatic weathering; Inorganic fraction; Mechanical weathering; Organic fraction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC MINERALS; OXIDATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BLACK LIMESTONE; CHROMATIC WEATHERING;

LIMESTONE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIMESTONE; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC MINERALS; OXIDATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIMESTONE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAKE COMO; LOMBARDY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749053634     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.07.028     Document Type: Article

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