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Natural Deformation of Rock and Stone

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Stone: Properties Durability in Man’s Environment

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Most rocks were exposed to stresses in the earth’s crust in the geologic past. Such stresses cause cracking and faulting under near-surface brittle conditions, folding if more plastic, as at greater depth. The stresses are compressional, tensional or shear. The variety and combination of deformational features is almost unlimited and the basic concepts of faulting and folding are found in basic textbooks of physical geology, to which the reader is referred. This book deals with only those simple rock structures which influence the stone appearance, the stone quality and quarry operations.

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  1. College of Science, Department of Geology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

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Winkler, E.M. (1973). Natural Deformation of Rock and Stone. In: Stone: Properties Durability in Man’s Environment. Applied Mineralogy / Technische Mineralogie, vol 4. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4120-5_3

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