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A contribution to the study of some greek marbles

1996; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 53; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bf02594948

0074-1612

G. S. Xeidakis, I. S. Samaras,

Historical and Architectural Studies

The use of marble in Architecture began on the 7th century B.C. and continued to be used without stop untill today. Greece and especially the East Macedonia region is an extremely privileged area on marble deposits both in quantities and qualities and colours. In the present work the main physical and engineering properties of some varieties of greek marbles are given and a comparison with the international standards is made. The experimental material (marbles) was from East Macedonia, Argolida-Arcadia and Magnessia, three of the biggest marble deposit areas in Greece. From the results obtained, it is concluded that the marbles examined satisfy all the international standard codes and thus they can be used as building stones and decoration materials.