Introduction: More than 80 fossil meteorites have been found in the ~4 m quarry layer of midOrdovician marine limestone in southern Sweden (Thorsberg quarry) [1, 2]. The analysis of noble gas data [2] in chromite grains from these meteorites has revealed a clear negative correlation between He, Ne concentrations and mass of the samples [3]. Similar correlation has been found also for cosmicray ...

The purpose of this study is automated handling of massive rocks for moving them to a proper place and for breaking them down at a rock quarry. This paper reports our first approach in laboratory environment using a robotic manipulator with a small sized laser range finder(LRF) to handle a relatively small object. For tumbling operation, we apply image processing techniques onto range images cr...

This paper reports on the unsupervised analysis of seismic signals recorded by four stations situated on the Vesuvius area in Naples, Italy. The dataset under examination is composed of earthquakes and false events like thunders, quarry blasts and man-made undersea explosions. The goal is to use these specific data for comparing the performance of three projection methods that are well known to...

In this study, the process of anthropic decay on stone materials and on the lithobiontic microbial colonization associated was investigated by means of both laboratory simulation (granite) and field experiments (dolostone ́s historical quarry), all of them stone materials traditionally used in heritage construction. A wide variety of salts including sulphates, phosphates and chlorides resulted f...

The paper presents data on quantity of sulphate, chloride and Izlokni su podaci o kolihni sulfata, klorida i metala u uzorcima metals in stone samples from the V i u r a n quarry and stone kamena iz kamenoloma Vinkuran i kamenih elemenata vanjskog blocks from the external curved wall of the Arena in Pula. It pldta Arene u Puli. Utvrdeno je da kamen iz kamenoloma has benn established that the st...

During respiration, particles suspended in the air are inhaled and unless cleared by airway defences they can remain and affect lung health. Their size precludes the use of standard imaging modalities so we have developed synchrotron phase-contrast X-ray imaging (PCXI) methods to non-invasively monitor the behaviour of individual particles in live mouse airways. In this study we used these tech...

In this research, a novel Hydraulically Bound Mixture (HBM) is successfully developed using waste minerals and industrial by-products to fully replace cement in road (base) foundation materials. HBM mixture that sets hardens by hydraulic reaction usually has compaction rolling. The materials used were reclaimed asphalt filler (RAF), quarry dust (QWD), plasterboard gypsum (PG) ground granulated ...