Carbonates in the built environment
Course information
Title of the course:
Carbonates in the built environment
Responsible for teaching:
Dr. Magdolna Hetényi
Other teachers:
Dr. Bernadett Bajnóczi
Type of the course:
Optional professional course
Description
Brief description of the lecture:
Syllabus:
The geology of carbonates: from carbonate minerals to carbonate rocks.
- Carbonate minerals and their structure
- The types of carbonate rocks (sedimentary, magmatic-hydrothermal and metamorphic) and their formation
- The importance of carbonates in the global carbon cycle.
The research methods of carbonates.
- Mineral composition and texture: polarising microscopy, cathodoluminescence, X-ray Powder Diffraction
- Geochemistry: isotope-geochemistry (C, O, Sr), element geochemistry: microprobe analysis, X-ray fluorescence analysis
The use of carbonates in the built environment.
- The cultural history of carbonates – the use of carbonate rocks in the European culture from antiquity until the present day: chalk, limestone and marble: main mine sites during the history and their utilization in architecture and decorations
- The (Hungarian) carbonate rocks used in domestic built environment: types (compact limestone, coarse limestone, travertine etc.), occurrence, geology, physical characteristics and their employment in the architecture from antiquity until the present day.
Archeometry.
- examining the origins of limestone and marble building and decorative materials by using mineralogical-petrological, geochemical, etc. methods.
The impairment of the built environment.
- The impairment of monuments and archaeological objects made of limestone and marble – its degradation due to natural and artificial environmental effects.
- the chemical, physical and anthropogenic factors of weathering
- introducing the various appearance forms of weathering by using the examples of building and decorative materials from Hungary and over the borders as well.
