Contribution to the knowledge of ancient Roman seawater concretes: Phlegrean pozzolan adopted in the construction of the harbour at Soli-Pompeiopolis (Mersin, Turkey)

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-488

  Stanislao, Corrado ^a   Rispoli, Concetta ^a   Vola, Gabriele ^b   Cappelletti, Piergiulio ^a   Morra, Vincenzo ^a   De Gennaro, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CTG Italcementi Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855840405     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2011PM0031     Document Type: Article

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