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Environmental Earth Sciences

Issue 7-8/2011

Special Issue : Monuments under Threat: Environmental Impact, Preservation Strategies and Natural Stone Recourses

Content (35 Articles)

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Characterization of indoor and outdoor atmospheric pollutants impacting architectural monuments: the case of San Jerónimo Monastery (Granada, Spain)

Velichka Kontozova-Deutsch, Carolina Cardell, Maja Urosevic, Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo, Felix Deutsch, René Van Grieken

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A comparison of the properties and salt weathering susceptibility of natural and reconstituted stones of the Orval Abbey (Belgium)

C. Thomachot-Schneider, M. Gommeaux, G. Fronteau, C. T. Oguchi, S. Eyssautier, B. Kartheuser

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Can drying and re-wetting of magnesium sulfate salts lead to damage of stone?

Enrica Balboni, Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal, Eric Doehne, George W. Scherer

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An integrated methodology for salt damage assessment and remediation: the case of San Jerónimo Monastery (Granada, Spain)

E. Ruiz-Agudo, B. Lubelli, A. Sawdy, R. van Hees, C. Price, C. Rodriguez-Navarro

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Preservation strategies for avoidance of salt crystallisation in El Paular Monastery cloister, Madrid, Spain

P. López-Arce, R. Fort, M. Gómez-Heras, E. Pérez-Monserrat, M. J. Varas-Muriel

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Limestones under salt decay tests: assessment of pore network-dependent durability predictors

Carlos Alves, Carlos Figueiredo, António Maurício, Maria Amália Sequeira Braga, Luís Aires-Barros

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Salt damage and microclimate in the Postumius Tomb, Roman Necropolis of Carmona, Spain

D. Benavente, S. Sanchez-Moral, A. Fernandez-Cortes, J. C. Cañaveras, J. Elez, C. Saiz-Jimenez

Open Access Special Issue

Moisture expansion as a deterioration factor for sandstone used in buildings

Joerg Ruedrich, Tobias Bartelsen, Reiner Dohrmann, Siegfried Siegesmund

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Flaw propagation and buckling in clay-bearing sandstones

Timothy P. Wangler, Alisa Stratulat, Philippa Duffus, Jean H. Prévost, George W. Scherer

Open Access Special Issue

Physical weathering of building stones induced by freeze–thaw action: a laboratory long-term study

J. Ruedrich, D. Kirchner, S. Siegesmund

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Influence of shape fabric and crystal texture on marble degradation phenomena: simulations

Victoria Shushakova, Edwin R. Fuller Jr, Siegfried Siegesmund

Open Access Special Issue

Bowing of dimensional granitic stones

P. Vázquez, S. Siegesmund, F. J. Alonso

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Mineralogical and chemical characterization of historical mortars from military fortifications in Lisbon harbour (Portugal)

A. Santos Silva, T. Cruz, M. J. Paiva, A. Candeias, P. Adriano, N. Schiavon, J. A. P. Mirão

Open Access Special Issue

Weathering of Fruchtschiefer building stones: mineral dissolution or rock disaggregation?

Cornelius Fischer, Stephan Kaufhold, Wanja Wedekind, Reiner Dohrmann, Volker Karius, Siegfried Siegesmund

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An integrated approach to assess the origins of black films on a granite monument

B. Pereira de Oliveira, J. M. de la Rosa, A. Z. Miller, C. Saiz-Jimenez, A. Gómez-Bolea, M. A. Sequeira Braga, A. Dionísio

Open Access Special Issue

Microbial diversity on a marble monument: a case study

Christine Hallmann, Jörg Rüdrich, Matthias Enseleit, Thomas Friedl, Michael Hoppert

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Ascomycete fungi on dimension stone of the “Burg Gleichen”, Thuringia

Christine Hallmann, Diana Fritzlar, Lorena Stannek, Michael Hoppert

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Weathering of sandstone lotus petals at the Angkor site: a 1,000-year stone durability trial

Marie-Françoise André, Bruno Phalip, Olivier Voldoire, Franck Vautier, Yves Géraud, Mhammed Benbakkar, Christophe Constantin, Fabienne Huber, Gilles Morvan

Open Access Special Issue

Weathering behaviour and construction suitability of dimension stones from the Drei Gleichen area (Thuringia, Germany)

Heidrun Stück, Siegfried Siegesmund, Jörg Rüdrich

Open Access Special Issue

Development and assessment of protective winter covers for marble statuaries of the Schlossbrücke, Berlin (Germany)

Joerg Ruedrich, York Rieffel, Stephan Pirskawetz, Holger Alpermann, Ute Joksch, Christoph Gengnagel, Frank Weise, Rudolph Plagge, Jianhua Zhao, Siegfried Siegesmund

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Shelters over the Megalithic Temples of Malta: debate, design and implementation

J. Cassar, M. Galea, R. Grima, K. Stroud, A. Torpiano

Open Access Special Issue

Black dimensional stones: geology, technical properties and deposit characterization of the dolerites from Uruguay

Manuela Morales Demarco, Pedro Oyhantçabal, Karl-Jochen Stein, Siegfried Siegesmund

Open Access Special Issue

Optimized extraction of dimension stone blocks

S. Mosch, D. Nikolayew, O. Ewiak, S. Siegesmund

Book Review

Reviews on books, internet and scientific media

Anne Marie de Grosbois