Schists as resource. Their characterisation and evaluation as ornamental and/or building stone (SHISTRESOURCE)
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Project title |
Schists as resource. Their characterisation and evaluation as ornamental and/or building stone (SHISTRESOURCE)
Project Code | PTDC/CTE-GIN/70704/2006
Main objective |
Region of intervention |
Beneficiary entity |
- Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Ciências - Associação para o Desenvolvimento(líder)
- INETI - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia,Tecnologia,Inovaçao(parceiro)
- Universidade de Évora(parceiro)
Approval date | 11-09-2007
Start date | 01-10-2007
Date of the conclusion | 30-09-2012
Total eligible cost |
European Union financial support |
National/regional public financial support |
Apoio financeiro atribuído à Universidade de Évora |
7200 €
Summary
Until the beginning of the 20th century, schist was the common building material in the Northeast and Centre regions of Portugal, due to the presence of a great number of schist outcropping in these regions.
The target area of this study is the north-eastern Portugal characterized by the occurrence of abundant schists.The better occurrences will be evaluate by geological and geophysical studies for to have a good knowledge of that occurrences for optimise their exploitation.We pretend with this project:1- To characterize the schist occurrences with structural, mineralogical, petrographical, petrophysical, chemical and technological studies having as objective the schist utilisation as ornamental and/or building stones;2- To do a technological characterisation of the rocks and a systematic evaluation of the occurrences with good potential;3- Develop a methodology for the application of techniques in order to characterize schist;4- Promote the schist as a geological resource.
The target area of this study is the north-eastern Portugal characterized by the occurrence of abundant schists.The better occurrences will be evaluate by geological and geophysical studies for to have a good knowledge of that occurrences for optimise their exploitation.We pretend with this project:1- To characterize the schist occurrences with structural, mineralogical, petrographical, petrophysical, chemical and technological studies having as objective the schist utilisation as ornamental and/or building stones;2- To do a technological characterisation of the rocks and a systematic evaluation of the occurrences with good potential;3- Develop a methodology for the application of techniques in order to characterize schist;4- Promote the schist as a geological resource.
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