Chemical, mineralogical and petrographic characterization of Roman ancient hydraulic concretes cores from Santa Liberata, Italy, and Caesarea Palestinae, Israel

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 317-338

  Vola, Gabriele ^a   Gotti, Emanuele ^a   Brandon, Chris ^b   Oleson, John P ^c   Hohlfelder, Robert L ^d  

^a CTG Italcementi Group   (Italy)

^b Pringle Brandon Architects   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient Roman harbours; Hydraulic seawater concretes; Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (NYT); Pozzolanic mortars; Pulvis Puteolanus of Vitruvius; ROMACONS project

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855165980     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2011PM0023     Document Type: Article

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