The evaluation of nano-particle based products to protect granite surfaces from water income is presented in this paper. Wettability, water absorption, drying behaviour and water vapour transfer were considered as the most relevant parameters for this evaluation. The effect of the application methods on the final performance was also tested. The results allow to consider that nanostructured pro...

Two methods using nujol and hexachloro-butadiene mulls are described to analyse the water content of powdered granite samples. The nujol mull analyses were carried out on a Unicam SP Ioo spectrometer using the silica content of the rock as an internal standard. The hexachlorobutadiene mull analyses were done by a twin-path Unicam SP 2oo spectrometer, using hexachlorobutadiene as the internal st...

Submission Details 1. Title: VSIPL++: Parallel Performance 2. Authors: • Mr. Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC 9978 Granite Point Ct Granite Bay, CA 95746 +1.916.791.8304 (voice) +1.916.914.2066 (fax) [email protected] USA citizenship • Dr. Jeffrey D. Oldham CodeSourcery, LLC 144 Wyandotte Dr San Jose, CA 95123-3727 +1.408.578.5684 (voice) +1.408.578.5684 (fax) [email protected] USA cit...

Previously reported plagioclase detections in the near-IR (NIR) are associated with crater-exposed subsurface materials as well light-toned bedrock plains poor crater retention. Because Fe-bearing has a weak ~1.25 μm feature that can be easily obscured by stronger absorptions most pyroxenes and olivines, candidate lithologies must dominated (e.g., anorthosite) and/or spectrally neutral quartz, ...

The variation in the volume of rock removed when a water jet traverses over a sample of Barre Granite is shown to vary with the angle at which the sample is cut relative to the orientation of the main deposit. For example where the jet impacts perpendicular to a microfissure plane a channel up to 10 times the volume is cut as when the jet is traversed along the microfissure plane. A correlation...

At low temperatures (<750 °C at moderate to high crustal pressures), the production of suffi cient melt to reach the melt connectivity transition (~7 vol%), enabling melt drainage, requires an infl ux of aqueous fl uid along structurally controlled pathways or recycling of fl uid via migration of melt and exsolution during crystallization. At higher temperatures, melting occurs by fl uid-absent...