A legacy of mistreatment: Conceptualizing the decay of medieval sandstones in NE Ireland

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 333, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-100

  McCabe, Stephen ^a   Smith, Bernard J ^a   Warke, Patricia A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEDIEVAL; MONUMENT; SANDSTONE; WEATHERING;

ANTRIM; IRELAND; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77956002327     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP333.9     Document Type: Article

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