Marble Tombstones Weathering

Studying rock types weathering processes and human history in a cemetery.

Marble tombstones weathering.

The booming and polluted metropolis of sydney and wollongong where pollution rates haven t changed much. Meierding department of geography and center for climatic research university of delaware newark de 19716 fax 302 831 8273 e mail buc18279 um udel edu abstract. Marble tombstone weathering and air pollution in north america thomas c. Weathering on gravestones author.

Weathering processes depend upon the pres ence of water the temperature the mineral composition of the rock and its chemical com position. Headstones are subjected to weath. Weathering rates of marble in urban environments eastern australia. Sometimes you run into darker stones made of gabbro maybe a few sandstone markers but especially in more recent monuments marble and granite and other plutonic rocks rule the roost.

Abstract maps of surface recession rates measured from 8 438 century old vermont marble tombstones at 320 cemeteries throughout north america and hawaii demonstrate that air pollution probably so 2 has been responsible for more deterioration of carbonate building stone and statuary than have other weathering processes upper stone faces in heavily polluted localities mean so 2.