Urban stone decay: The great weathering experiment?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 390, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Smith, Bernard J ^a   Turkington, Alice V ^b   Curran, Joanne M ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Stone Conservation Services Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Damage mapping; Environmental controls; Exposure trials; Gravestones; Microclimate; Positive feedback; Rock weathering; Salt content; Salt distribution; Salt type; Salt weathering; Simulation experiments; Spatial variation; Subsurface decay; Urban stone decay

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSERVATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); EROSION; FEEDBACK;

DAMAGE MAPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; EXPOSURE TRIALS; GRAVESTONES; MICROCLIMATE; ROCK WEATHERING; SALT CONTENT; SALT TYPES; SALT WEATHERING; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STONE DECAY; SUBSURFACE DECAY;

WEATHERING;

BUILDING STONE; CONSERVATION; DAMAGE; MICROCLIMATE; OUTCROP; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WEATHERING;

EID: 67649350841     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2390-6.1     Document Type: Article

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