Stone

Stone

A piece of rock that is quarried then worked into a specific size or shape to serve a function as a useful building or paving material.

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Shear

Building materials; Stone

A type of stress. A body is in shear when it is subjected to a pair of equal forces in opposite directions and which act along parallel planes.

Travertine marble

Building materials; Stone

A variety of limestone regarded as a product of chemical precipitation from hot springs. Travertine is cellular with the cells usually concentrated in thin layers that display a stalactitic ...

A very fine-grained metamorphic rock derived from sedimentary rock shale. characterised by an excellent parallel cleavage entirely independent of original bedding, by which cleavage the rock may be ...

Coursed veneer

Building materials; Stone

A wall treatment achieved by using stones of the same or approximately the same height. Horizontal joints run the entire length of the veneered area. Vertical joints are constantly broken so that no ...

Cut stone

Building materials; Stone

All stone cut or machined to given sizes, dimension or shape, and produced in accordance with working or shop drawings which have been developed from an architect's structural drawings.

Spot or spotting

Building materials; Stone

An adhesive contact, usually plaster of Paris, applied between the back of marble veneer and the face of a back-up wall to plum or secure standing marble.