Aspects of Stone Weathering, Decay and Conservation

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Foreword

• Acknowledgments

• The Weathering of Hastings Beds Sandstone Gravestones in South-East England

• Gravestones: Problems and Potentials as Indicators of Historic Changes in Weathering

• Deciphering the Impacts of Traffic on Stone Decay in Oxford: Some Preliminary Observations from Old Limestone Walls

• Role of Atmospheric Sulphur Dioxide in the Sulphation Reaction of Frescoes

• Moisture Loss from Stone Influenced by Salt Accumulation

• Characterisation of Decay Features on Sandstone Following Cleaning: Preliminary Observations

• Removal and Analysis of Soluble Salts from Chemically Cleaned Sandstones

• Aspects of Microclimate: Effects on the Distribution of a Biological Community on Hermitage Castle, U.K.

• Initial Investigations into the Deterioration of the Maya Limestone Monuments of Uxmal, Mexico

• Algal and Non-Algal Soiling Rates of Some Scottish Building Sandstones

• Microstructures in Historic Scottish Lime Mortars

• Scottish Market Crosses: Towards the Development of a Risk Assessment Model

• Contingent Valuation Comes to Town

• Cleaning of Stone Buildings: The Applicability of Established Value Assessment Methodologies

• Stone Conservation Within Historic Scotland from 1954 to the Present Day

• The Role of Technical Conservation Research and Education Division, Historic Scotland

• Stonework Conservation in the National Trust for Scotland (Presentation Abstract)

• Carved Stones (Presentation Abstract)

• Effect of Hydrocarbons on Biofilm Development on Sandstone (Poster Abstract)

• Heat and Mass Transfer at the Surface of Two Sandstone Types Under Different Atmospheric Conditions (Poster Abstract)

• Laser Cleaning of Scottish Sandstone and Granite (Poster Abstract)

• New Instruments for Monitoring Algae Populations on Stone Surfaces (Presentation Abstract)