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  2. Lithographic limestone - Wikipedia

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    A lithographic limestone printing plate after use to print a map. Note the uniform fine texture of the stone. Lithographic limestone is hard limestone that is sufficiently fine-grained, homogeneous and defect free to be used for lithography. Geologists use the term "lithographic texture" to refer to a grain size under 1/250 mm. [1]

  3. Bath stone - Wikipedia

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    Great Pulteney Street, Bath, looking West towards Pulteney Bridge.The style and the Bath stone used are typical of much of the city. Bath stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England.

  4. List of types of limestone - Wikipedia

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    Shelly limestoneLimestone containing many fossils; Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs; Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water

  5. Ford reopened quarry to get exact limestone match for ... - AOL

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    In the 1900s, limestone was cut by hand using chisels and hammers, using trains to transport blocks to customers where it was carved on site, Ford said in a news release in 2019. Now machines are ...

  6. Talatat - Wikipedia

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    Talatat are limestone blocks [1] of standardized size (c. 27 by 27 by 54 cm, corresponding to 1 ⁄ 2 by 1 ⁄ 2 by 1 ancient Egyptian cubits) used during the 18th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten in the building of the Aten temples at Karnak and Akhetaten (modern Amarna). The standardized size and their small weight made construction ...

  7. Geopolymer - Wikipedia

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    He claimed that the ancient Egyptians used a geopolymeric reaction to make re-agglomerated limestone blocks. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Later on, several materials scientists and physicists took over these archaeological studies and have published results on pyramid stones, claiming synthetic origins.

  8. List of largest monoliths - Wikipedia

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    Monolith with bull, fox, and crane in low relief at Göbekli Tepe. The density of most stone is between 2 and 3 tons per cubic meter. Basalt weighs about 2.8 to 3.0 tons per cubic meter; granite averages about 2.75 metric tons per cubic meter; limestone, 2.7 metric tons per cubic meter; sandstone or marble, 2.5 tons per cubic meter.

  9. Archaeologists in Egypt unearth section of large Ramses II statue

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    The limestone block is about 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) high and depicts a seated Ramses wearing a double crown and a headdress topped with a royal cobra, Bassem Jihad, head of the mission's Egyptian ...