T201 Cultural Geology and Heritage Stone: Use, Petrology, Quarrying, Engineering Properties, and Other Aspects of Stone Used for Buildings, Monuments, Sculpture, or Otherwise Relating to the Interface of Stone with Human Culture Past and Present

Tuesday, 6 November 2018
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 133

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  THE ROLE OF MATERIAL CHOICE IN REGIONAL SOCIO-POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS: GEOCHEMICAL VARIATION BETWEEN RECUAY MONUMENTAL STONE SCULPTURES IN THE ANDEAN HIGHLANDS
  Melissa A. Litschi, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
  324986 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  GEOLOGICAL ORIGIN AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SASCAB ON THE YUCATÁN PENINSULA IN MEXICO
  Bosiljka Glumac, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Carlos Peraza Lope, Mérida and Marilyn A. Masson, The University at Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY and Bradley Russell, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY and Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Smith College, Northampton, MA
  316503 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  CHARNOCKITE: IMPORTANT HERITAGE STONE FROM INDIA
  Vinod Sharma, Lucknow and Barry J. Cooper, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA and Laura Morrissey, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA
  316739 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  A STUDY ON THE SOUNDNESS OF PARENT ROCKS IN SRI LANKA
  Upali Jayawardena, Faculty of Engineering, PERADENIYA
  315446 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  INTRASAMPLE VARIATIONS IN STABLE ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF CARRARA MARBLE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROVENANCE STUDIES
  Hannah Clemens, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Bosiljka Glumac, Smith College, Northampton, MA
  316501 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  NERO DI COLONNATA (“BLACK CARRARA MARBLE”): PETROGRAPHIC AND STABLE ISOTOPE COMPARISONS WITH FAMOUS WHITE CARRARA MARBLE AND ONE CHINESE IMPORT
  Bosiljka Glumac, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Lorenzo Chemeri, University of Florence, Florence and Sergio Mancini, San Giovanni Valdarno
  316505 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  A REVIEW OF PITTSBURGH'S BUILDING STONES AND ARCHITECTURE STYLES FROM 1764 TO 1938
  Albert D. Kollar, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA and Kay Ann Hughes, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA and Rich Fedosick, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
  317753 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  A PARTICULAR FONDNESS FOR STONE: USE OF MARBLE AND OTHER STONE BY THE ARCHITECTURAL FIRM OF WALKER & WEEKS
  Joseph T. Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
  317819 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:05 PM
  THE SIGNATURE DIMENSION STONES USED BY LONGFELLOW, ALDEN AND HARLOW, ARCHITECTS - IN CLASSICAL PITTSBURGH ARCHITECTURE FROM 1887 – 1910
  Albert Kollar, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA and Rich Fedosick, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA and Kay Ann Hughes, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
  320435 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:20 PM
  INVESTIGATING MIDWESTERN MILLSTONES: DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MILLSTONES MADE OF LOCAL CHERT IN OHIO
  Tylor Mahany, Cleveland, OH and Brigitte Petras, Campbell, OH and Sean Newby, Cleveland, OH and Katherine Reuter, Cleveland, OH and Elizabeth A. Reinthal, Cleveland, OH and Joseph T. Hannibal, Cleveland, OH
  320221 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  LITHOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF A LATE-EIGHTEENTH–EARLY-NINETEENTH CENTURY KENTUCKY MILLSTONE QUARRY CONTAINING IN SITU MILLSTONES MADE OF ORDOVICIAN CHERT-RICH ROCK
  Joseph T. Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH and Charles D. Hockensmith, Frankfort, KY and Gary A. O'Dell, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
  317956 (Technical Sessions)