Publication at Faculty of Science |
2010
Abstract
The paper covers four major aspects: (1) availability of certain stone types for the monuments, (2) strategies aiming to strengthen our knowledge on past resources through the establishment of natural stone databases and inventories, (3) evaluation of natural stone properties and assessment the compatibility of repair stones, and (4) decay studies of natural stone on monuments and on natural exposures. This paper aims also to highlight the importance of the use of local stone resources, a practice that has seriously declined during the 20th c. in most of the industrialised countries.