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Worldwide Examples of Global Heritage Stones: an Introduction Downloaded from http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ by guest on September 29, 2021 Worldwide examples of global heritage stones: an introduction JOSEPH T. HANNIBAL1*, S. KRAMAR2 & B. J. COOPER3 1Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, OH 44106-1767, USA 2Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Dimicevǎ ulica 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 3School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia JTH, 0000-0003-3209-8068; BJC, 0000-0003-4745-431X *Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Heritage stones are stones that have special significance in human culture. The papers in this volume discuss a wide variety of such stones, including stones from Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. Igneous (basalt, porphyry and a variety of granites), sedimentary (sandstone, limestone) and meta- morphic (marble, quartzite, gneiss, slate, soapstone) stones are featured. These stones have been used over long periods of time for a wide range of uses, including monuments, buildings of architectural note, columns, roofing, tiling and lithography. A number of papers in this book provide information that is essential for eventual approval of stones as a Global Heritage Stone Resource or a group of stones as a Global Heritage Stone Province. Heritage stones are stones that are especially signifi- The included papers discuss a wide variety of stones cant in human culture. These stones have been used that have special significance in human culture. In to construct soaring gothic cathedrals, magnificent many cases, the information provided may serve temples, graceful stone bridges and important public as a step in the Global Heritage Stone Resource buildings and monuments. Heritage stones also (GHSR) designation of particular stones. Such des- include stone that has been used over a wide area ignation is intended to establish a standard for desig- for more mundane, but never-the-less important, nation of building and ornamental stone on an uses over a long period of years. These include use international level. Formal recognition as a GHSR for walls, roofing, paving and tiling. Sustained use or a group of stones as a Global Heritage Stone Prov- of particular stones can define the look of a large ince (GHSP) will ultimately be decided by the Heri- city, or smaller towns and villages of a particular tage Stones Subcommission of the International region. Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission It is important to identify, geologically character- for Geoheritage (formerly the Heritage Stone Task ize and correctly use such heritage stones to maintain Group of the IUGS). Details of the history and pro- the integrity of historic structures. Correct replace- cedures of the Subcommission can be found in ment stone is needed when such structures sustain Cooper et al. (2013) and Cooper (2014). Procedures damage due to natural or anthropomorphic causes. for designation of a GHSR can also be found in The April 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Marker (2015) as well as works posted on the web- Paris and the August 2018 earthquake that damaged site of the Subcommission (http://globalheritage the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, are stone.com/) recent examples of such damage. Many other struc- This book complements GSL Special Publication tures have been affected by weathering, particularly 407 Global Heritage Stone: Towards International in urban environments. Recognition of Building and Ornamental Stones We are pleased to present this selection of articles (Pereira et al. 2015b). That pioneering volume con- on heritage stone as Geological Society of London sisted of 21 papers and an introduction that brought (GSL) Special Publication 486 Global Heritage the subject of heritage stone and the GHSR designa- Stone: Worldwide Examples of Heritage Stones. tion to a general geological audience. Most of the From:HANNIBAL, J. T., KRAMAR,S.&COOPER, B. J. (eds) Global Heritage Stone: Worldwide Examples of Heritage Stones. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 486, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP486-2020-84 © 2020 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Published by The Geological Society of London. Publishing disclaimer: www.geolsoc.org.uk/pub_ethics Downloaded from http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ by guest on September 29, 2021 J. T. HANNIBAL ET AL. natural stones that were considered in the 2015 vol- Spain by various cultures for more than 2000 years, ume were European, and these included such famous is now being used to clad the massive Jesus Tower stones as Carrara Marble from Italy and larvikite of Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona (Fig. 1), from Norway. However, three South American one of the most iconic ecclesiastical structures in examples, Piedra Mar del Plata from Argentina and the world. Another important granite discussed is steatite and schist from Minas Gerais State in Brazil, Rapakivi granite from Finland, used for hundreds were included. The present volume extends the geo- of years in Finland and in the Russian city of St Peters- graphical coverage of heritage stone of the first vol- burg beginning in the 1700s, and more recently ume as it includes papers describing stones from all exported worldwide (Bulakh et al. 2020). continents, excepting Antarctica: Africa, Asia, Aus- Sedimentary rocks discussed in this volume tralia, Europe, North America and South America. include Indiana Limestone from the USA (Fig. 2), Also complementing this and the previous Spe- famous for its use in the Pentagon and the Empire cial Publications of the GSL on heritage stone are State Building (Shaffer 2019). Based on its wide- papers in the journal Episodes, including a collection spread use in North America, Shaffer makes a strong (Pereira et al. 2015a) that discusses an additional case for the use of the appellation ‘America’s seven potential GHSRs from Europe as well as Building Stone’ for this stone. The Solnhofener Plat- Sydney sandstone from Australia. There are also tenkalk, a very fine-grained German limestone, is related previous GSL Special Publications, such as famous for its fossils, especially the early bird volume 333 (Prikryľ & Török 2010), Natural Stone Archaeopteryx. It was also the most important stone Resources for Historical Monuments. (A list of used for lithography. Kölbl-Ebert & Cooper related Special Publications can be found in Pereira (2019) describe these facets of the stone’s history, et al. (2015c).) as well as lesser-known uses for flooring tiles The papers in this volume vary in approach and and roofing. Échaillion limestone, a light-coloured intent. All of the papers discuss geological aspects bioclastic limestone quarried in France since of the stone, discuss technical (physical-mechanical) Gallo-Roman times, has been used worldwide for properties in some way and document uses of these monuments and other uses. This stone, documented stones. A number of papers provide information that by Dumont & Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Indus- is essential for eventual approval of that stone as a triel d’Autrefois (2020), was particularly important GHSR or approval of a group of stones as a GHSP. in Beaux Arts architecture in France. Some papers cover one particular heritage stone; oth- Black limestones are featured in two papers: ers include two or more stones. In all cases the arti- Tourneur (2018) reviews geological and historical cles bring together diverse information, in many information on the famous Belgian black limestones, cases providing an English-language entryway into long known as black ‘marbles’, bringing together literature published in other languages, including much information previously available in French or Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Por- Dutch; Kramar et al. (2019) have brought together tuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. information on Drenov Gričlimestone, a black lime- The papers include articles on heritage stone from stone from Slovenia whose main use has been in Slo- all three major groups of rock: igneous, sedimentary venia and surrounding countries. The most important and metamorphic. Authors have discussed both use of this stone, notable for its white calcite veins extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks, including and fossils, was during the Baroque period. basalt, porphyry and granite. Cenozoic basalt quar- Sandstones are the topic of several articles. They ried in Victoria, southeastern Australia, is commonly include a paper (Grissom et al. 2018) on Seneca called bluestone. Walter (2018) documents its wide sandstone, an arkosic sandstone quarried along the use in the region for a variety of important structures, Potomac River in the eastern USA. This is one of many of which are listed on Australian or New Zea- the better-known red sandstones quarried from the land historical registers and lists. She suggests Victo- Newark Supergroup, and most famously used for the rian bluestone as a GHSP and points out the Smithsonian Castle building in Washington, DC. Malmsbury Bluestone found within the province as Berea sandstone, described by Hannibal (2020),is a potential GHSR. Volcanic rocks are also repre- one of the historically most important sandstones sented by Lower Permian Trentino porphyry, a in North America. It has been quarried in Ohio for very durable ignimbrite from northern Italy; there more than 200 years and used over a wide area of is no similar dimension stone so widely used for pav- the USA and Canada for a large number of structures ing across the world (Primavori & Angheben now on the US National Register of Historic Places 2020). and the Canadian Register of Historic Places. Granite is known as one of the most durable Ehling’s (2018) paper features a number of sand- building stones and this is certainly true for stones from the Cretaceous of northern Germany, ‘Blanco Cristal’, a leucogranite from central Spain some with a quarrying history of more than a thou- (Freire-Lista & Fort 2019).
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