The industrial waste land in Mortagne-du-Nord (59) – III – Methodological approach for a non-destructive geophysical study of sites contaminated by mineralized water

2002 ◽  
Vol 173 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Guérin* ◽  
Cédric Panissod ◽  
Médard Thiry ◽  
Yves Benderitter ◽  
Alain Tabbagh ◽  
...  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Guérin ◽  
Philippe Bégassat ◽  
Yves Benderitter ◽  
Jacques David ◽  
Alain Tabbagh ◽  
...  

1991 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 846-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante J. Tedaldi ◽  
Raymond C. Loehr

Author(s):  
Bernd Jürgen Fitzner

Abstract: Stone monuments represent an important part of our world´s cultural heritage. The awareness of increasing stone damage on monuments and the danger of irretrievable loss of cultural heritage have resulted in great efforts worldwide for sustainable monument preservation. A precise damage diagnosis with the comprehensive characterization, interpretation and rating of stone damage represents the basis for effective and economic monument preservation measures. The experienced methodological approach to the assessment of stone damage combines in situ investigation and laboratory studies. The monument mapping method is presented as an established non-destructive procedure for in situ studies on stone damage. It can be applied to all stone types and to all kinds of stone monuments. The use of weathering forms, damage categories and damage indices for the registration, documentation, quantitative evaluation and rating of stone damage is explained. Furthermore, complementary in situ measurements are discussed. A wide range of analytical procedures and weathering simulation tests contribute to modern damage diagnosis on stone monuments.Keywords: damage, stone, monumentsResumo: INVESTIGAÇÃO SOBRE DANOS DO INTEMPERISMO PARA MONUMENTOS EM PEDRA. Os monumentos em pedra representam uma parte importante do patrimônio cultural do mundo. A consciência do aumento dos danos causados ao material pétreo nesses monumentos e o perigo de perda irrecuperável desse património resultaram em grandes esforços a nível mundial para a preservação sustentável desses monumentos. Um diagnóstico preciso de danos com a caracterização, interpretação e avaliação abrangentes desses danos causados às pedras representa a base para a adoção de medidas de conservação eficazes e econômicas. A abordagem metodológica a ser adotada para a avaliação desses danos deve combinar a investigação in situ e estudos laboratoriais. Nessa abordagem o mapeamento de monumentos é apresentado como um procedimento não destrutivo estabelecido para os estudos in situ sobre danos causados às pedras, podendo ser aplicado a todos os tipos de pedra e a todos os tipos de monumentos construídos com a pedra. Nesse trabalho, o uso de formas de intemperismo, categorias de danos e índices de danos para o registro, documentação, avaliação quantitativa e classificação de danos para a pedra é explicado. Além disso, discutem-se medidas complementares a serem adotadas in situ. Uma ampla gama de procedimentos analíticos e testes de simulação de meteorização contribuem para o diagnóstico de danos modernos em monumentos construídos em pedra.Palavras Chave: dano, pedra, monumentos


The development of multi-purpose forests is now recognized as sound land use. While timber production remains paramount, increasing attention is given to other benefits which forests can confer on land and community. The values in the countryside of shelter, conservation and recreation, and the improvement of urban life by the transformation of industrial waste land to town forests, are tangible contributions to the quality of life. Forests sympathetically planned and managed also enrich the visual landscape; plantations can be shaped to accord with the topography, their margins merging easily into the surrounding landscape pattern. The retention of indigenous species within the forest boundary serves both conservation and beauty, and felling can be planned to avoid unsightly scars. By these methods of management, forests can be developed in a way which will help to overcome the impoverishment of the landscape currently caused by reduction of tree cover over much agricultural land.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (16) ◽  
pp. 6301-6309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenza Crupi ◽  
Alessandra Giunta ◽  
Barry Kellett ◽  
Francesca Longo ◽  
Giacomo Maisano ◽  
...  

In the present study, an innovative methodological approach has been proposed in order to characterize meteoritic samples without removing or causing damage to any part of them.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sem Scaramucci ◽  
Vanessa Volpi ◽  
Armando Costantini ◽  
Marco Giamello ◽  
Alessandro Donati ◽  
...  

In central-southern Tuscany radiolarite has been used as a lithic raw material throughout prehistory. During the Copper Age it was selected for the local production of leaf-shaped artefacts. In the area considered, the Copper Age record is almost totally restricted to burials and virtually no settlements have been investigated so far. Radiolarite artefacts are found mostly as refined arrow and, possibly javelin, heads used as grave goods.Within this context, the discovery and recent investigation of the large radiolarite quarry of La Pietra (Roccastrada, Grosseto) and of the related workshops is of great interest. Our aim here is to integrate the record from this site with other contemporary evidence of radiolarite exploitation. A programme of surveys has thus begun on the other radiolarite outcrops of the area in order to verify the existence of further rock quarrying or working. The discovery of a previously unknown quarry-workshop and two previously unknown workshops on radiolarite outcrops is presented here for the first time. The geological and archaeological data coming from the quarry-workshops will be used, in a future stage of research, to source the radiolarite artefacts found in Copper Age graves of Central Italy. The Copper age armatures are valuable artefacts mostly kept in museums and fully non-destructive analyses must be applied to them. To tackle these challenges, we followed a methodological approach which integrates field surveys, the individuation of petrographic markers of the most exploited radiolarite horizons and geochemical analyses. For geochemical characterization, we made use of pXRF portable spectrometer and here we present some preliminary results in the light of current methodological debate.In conclusion, even if some methodological questions remain open, we verified the feasibility of this programme of geographical, geological and geochemical characterizations and need now to increase our dataset in order to reconstruct a viable picture of Copper age lithic economy in central-southern Tuscany.


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