Sentence examples for facing stone from inspiring English sources

"Unbelievably," says Hill, "granite as a facing stone for buildings isn't available today, except from China.

Marble is used for statuary and carvings, and as polished slabs it is a popular facing stone.

The usage of travertine as a natural building and facing stone shows a gradually rising trend in construction sector around the world.

Between 1968 and 1971 its facing stone was dismantled and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.S. state of Arizona, where it was reerected on a five-span core of reinforced concrete to serve as a tourist attraction at the resort town of Lake Havasu City.

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.

During hastily organized restoration work in 1905 10, the architect Leopoldo Batres arbitrarily added a fifth terrace level to the structure, and many of its original facing stones were removed.

Sodalite, once treasured as the basic ingredient of ultramarine pigment, is still used as a gemstone and as the desired constituent of many of the blue rocks used as facing stones.