Eye injuries often occur in the workplace in low and middle-income countries, particularly in the construction, agricultural, mining, and manufacturing industries. Even if there are safety regulations in these industries, their enforcement is often unsatisfactory, and owners are not required to provide safety equipment. In 2005, Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, conducted a pilot stu...

Throughout history, the production of lime on Croatian islands, which are mostly made limestone and dolomite, has been an important economic activity. In northern Dalmatian centrally positioned northeastern Adriatic coast, was produced for local needs, but also purposes construction in nearby cities Zadar Šibenik. On basis research into various written cartographic archival sources relating to ...

The alkali-silica reaction has been studied in depth due to the evolution knowledge of expansive phenomenon. One its most important aspects is rate aggregates. In Spain, at early 90s 20th century, aggregates were considered almost non-reactive. However, use accelerated curing and other environmental factors revealed that there potentially reactive siliceous Nevertheless, are several limestone w...

Soil rebuilding represents a major challenge in the recovery of abandoned quarries. In this study, we explored possibility using reconstructed Technosols, to achieve soil goals at an quarry site. We first investigated use mixture containing commercial manure and limestone debris (LD) as pedotechnomaterials for “ad hoc” (re)constructed Technosol (CT), opencast one most concentrated areas world. ...

Specimens of fossil gopher tortoises (Gopherus) were collected from five late Pliocene, two early Pleistocene, five middle Pleistocene, and 52 late Pleistocene sites in 18 counties in Florida, one county in Georgia, three in South Carolina, and one in Mississippi. Occurrences of fossil Gopherus polyphemus in Lowndes County, Mississippi, and Charleston, Colleton, and Horry counties, South Caroli...

Abstract Since the 1980s, Upper Jurassic lithographic limestone of Causse Méjean (southern France) has been known by local naturalists to yield fossils. However, until beginning 21st century, this plattenkalk remained largely undersampled and scientifically underestimated. Here, we present results two decades prospection sampling in Drigas Nivoliers quarries. We provide first palaeontological i...

The conservation of the historic stone heritage has great importance when this material characterizes the image of a city, as it happens in Syracuse (Sicily). Its historical buildings are afflicted by a heavy state of deterioration due to the particular microclimate, to pollution and to neglect endured over time. This article reports the investigations made on limestone samples from historic fa...

The application of several magnetic parameters to ochre samples has found that they can be used to characterize samples from known ochre quarries. This technique also allows the sourcing of ochre found in archaeological contexts and provides an alternative to geochemical methods of provenancing ochres. Simple magnetic parameters (susceptibility and isothermal remanence) are effective in discrim...