Sentence examples for faced stone from inspiring English sources
To master the problem of cracking, prestressed anchor rings of steel bandages are to be provided under the faced stone layer of the outer wall of the dome.
After a major fire in the largely wooden Aberdeen in the 1740s, the city fathers decreed that major buildings should be in the locally abundant granite, beginning a new phase in large scale mining and leading to the "granite city", as a port, becoming a centre of a major industry in the nineteenth century, which supplied Scotland and England with faced stone, pavement slabs and pillars.
The patrols had become increasingly risky, as monitors faced stone-throwing crowds and gunfire.
Marble is used for statuary and carvings, and as polished slabs it is a popular facing stone.
"Unbelievably," says Hill, "granite as a facing stone for buildings isn't available today, except from China.
The usage of travertine as a natural building and facing stone shows a gradually rising trend in construction sector around the world.
This can be done by left clicking while facing stone blocks.
This paper demonstrates how thermoluminescence (TL) dating can help resolve long-standing chronological problems facing stone-built cairn monuments and tombs in Jordan.
Not only has the removal of carefully cut facing stones detracted from the beauty of the structures, but in several cases it has resulted in their collapse.
Some coarsely crystalline diagenetic limestones are among the most widely used commercial "marbles". Travertine and onyx marble (banded calcite) are also popular facing stones, usually for interior use.
He spent only a short while at the site as even at that time it had been badly looted by the townspeople of Bolonchen who had carted away many of the facing stones.
