Global Heritage Stone: Towards International Recognition of Building and Ornamental Stones
Product code: SP407
Print publication date: 03/06/2015
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Resources and Economic Geology, Environmental Geology
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862396852
Author/Edited by: Edited by D. Pereira, B.R. Marker, S. Kramar, B.J. Cooper and B.E. Schouenborg
Weight: 0.81kg
Number of pages: 275
Online publication date: 01/04/2015
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/407/1
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Special Publication 407
This Special Publication is dedicated to heritage stone: those natural stones that have special significance in human culture. Some stones that have had important uses in the past are now neglected because they are no longer extracted. Others are still commercially important, but their heritage uses have not been well documented in widely available sources. The Heritage Stone Task Group of the International Union of Geological Sciences is working to establish a new formal designation of ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ to recognize those stones that have had internationally significant architectural and ornamental uses. The aim is to spread awareness of the cultural heritage aspects of these stones, to help to encourage continued supply for maintenance and repair of important monuments and to preserve historically important quarries. The aim is neither to promote nor to limit these stones for new construction: in some cases continuing commercial use might help to ensure future supplies for building conservation purposes.
Pereira, D., Marker, B. R., Kramar, S., Cooper, B. & Schouenborg, B. Introduction
Marker, B. R. Procedures and criteria for the definition of Global Heritage Stone Resources
Cooper, B. J. The ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ designation: past, present and future
Heldal, T., Meyer, G. B. & Dahl, R. Global stone heritage: Larvikite, Norway
Schouenborg, B., Andersson, J., Göransson, M. & Lundqvist, I. The Hallandia gneiss, a Swedish heritage stone resource
Wikström, A. & Pereira, D. The Kolma°rden serpentine marble in Sweden: a stone found both in castles and people’s homes
Lopes, L. & Martins, R. Global Heritage Stone: Estremoz Marbles, Portugal
Almeida, A. & Begonha, A. Contribution of Portuguese two-mica granites to stone built heritage: the historical value of Oporto granite
Pereira, D., Gimeno, A. & Del Barrio, S. Piedra Pajarilla: a candidacy as a global heritage stone resource for Martinamor granite
Navarro, R., Pereira, D., Rodríguez-Navarro, C. & Sebastián-Pardo, E. The Sierra Nevada serpentinites: the serpentinites most used in Spanish heritage buildings
Garcia-Talegón, J., Iñigo, A. C., Alonso-Gavilán, G. & Vicente-Tavera, S. Villamayor Stone (Golden Stone) as a Global Heritage Stone Resource from Salamanca (NW of Spain)
Fort, R., Varas-Muriel, M. J., Alvarez De Buergo, M. & Perez-Monserrat, E. M. Colmenar Limestone, Madrid, Spain: considerations for its nomination as a Global Heritage Stone Resource due to its long term durability
Primavori, P. Carrara Marble: a nomination for ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ from Italy
Careddu, N. & Grillo, S. Rosa Beta granite (Sardinian Pink Granite): a heritage stone of international significance from Italy
Fratini, F., Pecchioni, E., Cantisani, E., Rescic, S. & Vettori, S. Pietra Serena: the stone of the Renaissance
Dino, G. A. & Cavallo, A. Ornamental stones of the Verbano Cusio Ossola quarry district: characterization of materials, quarrying techniques and history and relevance to local and national heritage
Borghi, A., Berra, V., d’Atri, A., Dino, G. A., Gallo, L. M., Giacobino, E., Martire, L., Massaro, G., Vaggelli, G., Bertok, C., Castelli, D., Costa, E., Ferrando, S., Groppo, C. & Rolfo, F. Stone materials used for monumental buildings in the historical centre of Turin (NW Italy): architectonical survey and petrographic characterization of Via Roma
Kramar, S., Bedjanič, M., Mirtič, B., Mladenović, A., Rožič , B., Skaberne, D., Gutman, M., Zupančič, N. & Cooper, B. Podpeč limestone: a heritage stone from Slovenia
Golež, M. & Mirtič, B. Stone heritage in Southeast Slovenia
Bulakh, A. G. Ornamental stone in the history of St Petersburg architecture
Costa, A. G. Natural stone in the built heritage of the interior of Brazil: the use of stone in Minas Gerais
Cravero, F., Ponce, M. B., Gozalvez, M. R. & Marfil, S. A. ‘Piedra Mar del Plata’: An Argentine orthoquartzite worthy of being considered as a ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’
Index
The editors have done well in compiling such a broad range of papers and this prevents the book from becoming a collection of sterile technical papers of specialist interest only. It is a compilation full of interest to the 'general' reader and I genuinely enjoyed reading it. There are detailed histories and descriptions of some old friends (larvikitc, Carrara Marble) and many fascinating technical and historical details of stones and provinces that are probably poorly known to many readers of Geoscientist. This could be an important volume to have to hand for those involved in geoheritage projects and many of its papers would be of interest to the more general reader who simply 'loves' rocks (and who doesn't?).
Reviewed by Trevor F Emmett, Geoscientist Feb, 2016.
