Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
GEO/09 (MINERAL GEOLOGICAL RESOURCES AND MINERALOGIC AND PETROGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL HERITAGE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Course
APPLIED GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2018 - 18/01/2019)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
Students will learn to (i) understand industrial processes (ceramics, mortars, and plasters), as well as pre-industrial (historical and archaeological materials); (ii) manage multianalytical techniques and study and diagnostics protocols applied to natural and artificial materials; (iii) read and interpret data collection of both natural and artificial materials (ceramics, mortars and plasters, stones) and write a petrographic report.
Course contents
Modern and historical natural building stones and artificial stone materials (mortars and plasters). Petrographic versus business classification. Industrial and pre-industrial methods of quarrying. Material properties and uses. Textural and compositional investigations. Study of microstructural defects. Production economy.
Study of both modern and archaeological ceramics. Classification principles. The production cycle of ceramics: the raw materials and their industrial and pre-industrial processing (production recipes, raw materials provenance).
Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures. The theoretical coverage of all topics will always be supplemented by substantial practical applications.
Reccomended or required readings
Di Sivo M., 2004, Atlante della pietra, Editore UTET (collana Grande atlante di architettura), ISBN: 978-88-0206125-2
Lazzarini L., 2004, Pietre e Marmi Antichi, CEDAM, ISBN: 978-88-13-25021-8
Quinn P.S. 2013, Ceramic Petrography, Archaeopress, ISBN: 978-1905739-59-2
Pecchioni E., Fratini F., Cantisani E, 2008, Le malte antiche e moderne tra tradizione ed innovazione, PATRON Editore, ISBN: 885552996X
Assessment methods
At the end of the course, the student will make an oral exam focusing on the topics treated during the course; second step consists in drafting a technical report. on a case study proposed during the course
Further information
At the end of the course, the student will make an oral exam focusing on the topics treated during the course; second step consists in drafting a technical report. on a case study proposed during the course
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