Showing posts with label Caliza (Limestone). Show all posts
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Caliza Alba


GEOGRAPHIC LOCALIZATION
PROVINCE Murcia
TOWNSHIP Moratalla

MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Light cream colour rock with abundant fossil remains.

MINERAL COMPOSITION
ESSENTIAL MINERALS ACCESORY MINERALS
Calcite. Quartz, clay minerals.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Rock with a high percentage of fossils (lamellibranche, ostrachods, equinoderms, etc.) in a micritic matrix.

PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
BULK SPECIFIC GRAVITY 2,19 g/cm3
APPARENT POROSITY 2,30%
ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT 6,03%
COMPRESSION STRENGTH 471 Kg/cm2
BENDING STRENGTH 83 Kg/cm2
C. STRENGTH AFTER FREEZING TEST 483 Kg/cm2
FRICTIONAL WEAR TEST 5,16 mm
IMPACT TEST 23 cm

Caliza Andalucia


GEOGRAPHIC LOCALIZATION
PROVINCE Cordoba
TOWNSHIP Cabra

MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Limestone of light cream colour and a few brown dots.

MINERAL COMPOSITION
ESSENTIAL MINERALS ACCESORY MINERALS
Calcite, organic remains. Dolomite, Quartz.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Abundant remains of alveolines and intraclastic sparite.

PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
BULK SPECIFIC GRAVITY 2,34 g/cm3
APPARENT POROSITY 4,80%
ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT 4,81%
COMPRESSION STRENGTH 371 Kg/cm2
BENDING STRENGTH 70 Kg/cm2
C. STRENGTH AFTER FREEZING TEST 300 Kg/cm2
FRICTIONAL WEAR TEST 3,00 mm
IMPACT TEST 30 cm

Caliza San Vicente


GEOGRAPHIC LOCALIZATION
PROVINCE Barcelona
TOWNSHIP Sant Viçenc de Castellet

MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Greenish grey colour rock with some fossil remains.

MINERAL COMPOSITION
ESSENTIAL MINERALS ACCESORY MINERALS
99% Calcite Iron oxides.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Abundant remains of alveolines and intraclastic sparite.

PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
BULK SPECIFIC GRAVITY 2,70 g/cm3
APPARENT POROSITY 0,30%
ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT 0,90%
COMPRESSION STRENGTH 732 Kg/cm2
BENDING STRENGTH 300 Kg/cm2
C. STRENGTH AFTER FREEZING TEST 698 Kg/cm2
FRICTIONAL WEAR TEST 2,41 mm
IMPACT TEST 45 cm

Caliza Sevilla


GEOGRAPHIC LOCALIZATION
PROVINCE Sevilla
TOWNSHIP Estepa

MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Fine grain limestone, cream colour with some darker fossil remains.

MINERAL COMPOSITION
ESSENTIAL MINERALS ACCESORY MINERALS
Calcite. Clay minerals.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Micritic material with rock and molluscs fragments.

PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
BULK SPECIFIC GRAVITY 2,68 g/cm3
APPARENT POROSITY 5,05%
ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT 1,98%
COMPRESSION STRENGTH 1.132 Kg/cm2
BENDING STRENGTH 139 Kg/cm2
C. STRENGTH AFTER FREEZING TEST 884 Kg/cm2
FRICTIONAL WEAR TEST 3,15 mm
IMPACT TEST 20 cm