Microstructural Characterization of Ornamental Rock Samples: Cariri Rocks

Danúbia Lisbôa da Costa; Ingrid Mayara Medeiros Fernandes; Aluska Nascimento Simões Braga; Rosiane Maria da Costa Farias; Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes; Gelmires Araújo Neves

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Microstructural Characterization of Ornamental Rock Samples: Cariri Rocks

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Ornamental rocks are among the most promising business areas of the mineral sector, raising the necessity for, besides beauty, investments in quality, safety and characterization in the various application fields of these rocks. So, this work aims at the microstructural characterization of the class of these rocks: the Cariri Rocks, also known the limestone, which are calcareous rocks mainly formed by calcium and magnesium carbonate, possibly presenting variations due to their origins. For characterization, we studied four samples, being two from Chapada do Apodi and two from Chapada do Araripe, characterized physically and micro-structurally through chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction, optical micrography and porosimetry tests. The results prove that the limestones are calcitic and dolomitic, and present porosity varying from 5 to 15%, with pores concentration between 100nm and 10μm, besides the high microstructural heterogeneity.

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Danúbia Lisbôa da Costa, Ingrid Mayara Medeiros Fernandes, Aluska Nascimento Simões Braga, Rosiane Maria da Costa Farias, Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes, Gelmires Araújo Neves

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Cariri Rocks, Characterization, Limestone, Ornamental Rocks

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