Sustainable Use of Traditional Geomaterials in Construction Practice

Geomaterials derived from the Earth’s crust and used in construction after appropriate processing are among the earliest raw materials exploited, processed and used by humans. Their numerous functional properties include accessibility, workability and serviceability, and these are explored within this volume. In modern society, sustainable use of raw materials, specifically those exploited in large volumes such as geomaterials for construction, raises questions of reducing extraction of primary resources and thus minimizing impacts on natural systems, and also employment of materials and technologies to lower emissions of deleterious substances into the atmosphere. This will be possible only if we fully understand the properties, processing and mode of use of traditional geomaterials. Although most of the papers within this volume were written by geologists, the contributions will also be of interest to those working in cultural heritage, monument conservation, civil engineering and architecture.
Antique stone quarries in Turkey: a case study on tuffs in the Temple of Apollon Smintheus
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Published:January 01, 2016
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Duygu Ergenç, Emine N. Caner Saltık, Tamer Topal, 2016. "Antique stone quarries in Turkey: a case study on tuffs in the Temple of Apollon Smintheus", Sustainable Use of Traditional Geomaterials in Construction Practice, R. Přikryl, Á. Török, M. Gomez-Heras, K. Miskovsky, M. Theodoridou
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Abstract
All types of stones have been used as building stones, depending on their durability, visual harmony with the intended construction and availability. In the Hellenistic period, as in other periods, tuff was preferred as a building stone due to its convenience – it was easy to extract, transport and use for building. In the present study, three ancient quarries that were the possible tuff sources for the Apollon Smintheus Temple in Çanakkale are investigated by comparing the durability properties of stones in the temple and in the quarries. These properties are determined using physical and physico-mechanical tests, comparing fresh...
- Asia
- building stone
- buildings
- Canakkale Turkey
- case studies
- Cenozoic
- chemical composition
- construction materials
- durability
- electron microscopy data
- engineering properties
- experimental studies
- Holocene
- igneous rocks
- laboratory studies
- mechanical properties
- microstructure
- Middle East
- mineral assemblages
- petrography
- petrology
- physical properties
- provenance
- pyroclastics
- quarries
- Quaternary
- sampling
- SEM data
- spectra
- testing
- tuff
- Turkey
- upper Holocene
- volcanic rocks
- weathering
- X-ray diffraction data
- X-ray fluorescence spectra
- Hellenistic period
- Temple of Apollon Smintheus