Rosa Buxcarro


GEOGRAPHIC LOCALIZATION
PROVINCE Valencia
TOWNSHIP Quatretonda

MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Fine grain compact rock, light orange pinkish coloured, with some veins filled with clay products.

MINERAL COMPOSITION
ESSENTIAL MINERALS ACCESORY MINERALS
Calcite. Clay minerals.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
Rock composed by micritic intraclasts and some fossils wich are pasted in a not very abundant sparite matrix.

PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
BULK SPECIFIC GRAVITY 2,69 g/cm3
APPARENT POROSITY 0,20%
ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT 0,08%
COMPRESSION STRENGTH 929 Kg/cm2
BENDING STRENGTH 194 Kg/cm2
C. STRENGTH AFTER FREEZING TEST 576 Kg/cm2
FRICTIONAL WEAR TEST 2,35 mm
IMPACT TEST 40 cm

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