Industrial rocks and minerals of Jordan: a review

Khoury, Hani

doi:10.1007/s12517-019-4750-0

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“…1-Geological Formation: The study indicated that certain geological formations spread in the study regions contain limestone in particular. These formations [25] indicate the availability of quarries used for quarrying building stones, especially mass limestone of the upper Cretaceous. The formations in the study regions vary in the discovered areas.…”

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“…It is one of the most important widely used types of sedimentary rocks in Jordan, especially in mass limestone of the Cretaceous period in construction, cement industry, and for several other construction and road works. The higher the crystallinity of limestone, the better are its uses, especially for decorative and construction purposes [25]. Limestone spreads in many areas in the northern and southern regions of Jordan.…”

Section: The Availability Of Natural Stone Materials In Most Jordanian Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas limestone rocks in Ma'am region, south of Jordan, consists of rocks with different types of fossils, which are the remains of living organisms or plants that were once buried and fossilized after their decomposition in sedimentary rocks over long periods. The building stones in Jordan, in general, are considered among the best building stones all over the world, especially in terms of high specific weight, low water absorption rate, and durability [25]. This differentiation among building stones in different regions indicates that there are factors that either decrease or increase the quality of the building stone.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This differentiation among building stones in different regions indicates that there are factors that either decrease or increase the quality of the building stone. Khoury 2006 mentioned that what usually causes the low quality of building stones is the presence of cracks, joints, fossils, voids filled with sand and clay, and veins filled with secondary minerals such as calcite and quartz. It is worth mentioning that what also reduces the quality of the stone is the percentage of its water absorption, which can be studied by measuring the percentage of humidity, the density of its vegetation cover, and the relative change of stone temperature.…”

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Detection of Limestone Quarries in Jordan Through Remote Sensing Data to Achieve Sustainable Utilization in Vernacular Architecture

Tarrad¹,

Ibrahim²

2021

IJSDP

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All human societies seek stability and use of place and material in order to create architectural buildings. One of the most important materials that man used as a building material was natural stone, and in Jordan stone has a special architectural value, as Jordanian architects used it to form a unique architectural style, especially in the capital, Amman. But at the end of the last century and the beginning of the current century, alternative manufactured building materials appeared, and architects began using them for many reasons, including the lack of quality of natural stone and its defects, which resulted in deformation of the architectural facades. The research used remote sensing techniques to know the properties and quality of the stone. This research used the descriptive approach in studying the history of architecture in Jordan and its relationship to limestone, and relied on the analytical survey by obtaining data from satellite images, where they were analyzed and the properties of the stone in the ground were shown. This research aims to preserve the use of natural stone in construction as a building material that has characteristics in sustainability.

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Section: The Availability Of Natural Stone Materials In Most Jordanian Regionsmentioning

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Section: The Availability Of Natural Stone Materials In Most Jordanian Regionsmentioning

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Detection of Limestone Quarries in Jordan Through Remote Sensing Data to Achieve Sustainable Utilization in Vernacular Architecture

Tarrad¹,

Ibrahim²

2021

IJSDP

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“…The rocks in the study areas are part of the Precambrian Arabian Shield of Jordan which is locally called Aqaba Complex [3,4]. The estimated amount of Feldspar reserves in Al-Jaishia, which is the area under study in the current research, exceeds 115 million tons [5]. Several materials have been exploited as a replacement material in concrete mixtures in the last decades.…”

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Implementation of Feldspar as a partial replacement material in cement mortar (exploration and application)

Edris¹,

Al-Tamimi²,

Aldelgawy³

2022

J Appl Eng Science

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This paper aims to explore and evaluate the use of Jordanian Feldspar as a natural resource partially replacement material for each of cement and sand in cement mortar. First, Al-Jaishia area was explored through a global positioning system (GPS) navigation to gather site samples of Feldspar raw material. Afterward, cement and sand were partially replaced by Feldspar with substitution ratios of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25% for each. The study included the effect of cement replacement on normal consistency and setting time for cement paste. The water content along with initial and final setting times increased via the increment of cement replacement ratio. Moreover, mechanical properties (compressive, flexural, and residual compressive strengths) of cement mortar due to both cement and sand replacement were evaluated. The compressive and flexural strengths after 3, 7, and 28 days of curing were examined for both cement and sand replacement. While, residual compressive strength for cement replacement after 28 days was measured at elevated temperatures of 400°C, 600°C, and 800°C. The compressive and flexural strengths decreased by increasing the Feldspar replacement ratio for both cement and sand at all specimen ages. Whereas, heat resistance properties were improved by cement/Feldspar replacement. The best result for residual compressive strength was obtained at 15% replacement ratio and 400°C temperature.

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Exotic Electronic Properties of 2D Nanosheets Isolated from Liquid Phase Exfoliated Phyllosilicate Minerals

Wei,

Roy,

Tripathi

et al. 2023

Advanced Materials

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Spectrally inactive, electrically insulating, and chemically inert are adjectives broadly used to describe phyllosilicate minerals like mica and chlorite. Here, the above is disproved by demonstrating aqueous suspensions of liquid exfoliated nanosheets from five bulk mica types and chlorite schist. Nanosheet quality is confirmed via transmission electron and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopies, as well as electron diffraction. Through Raman spectroscopy, a previously unreported size‐ and layer‐dependent spectral fingerprint is observed. When analyzing the high‐yield suspensions (≈1 mg mL−1) through UV–vis spectroscopy, all phyllosilicates present bandgap (Eg) narrowing from ≈7 eV in the bulk to ≈4 eV for monolayers. Unusually, the bandgap is inversely proportional to the areal size (A) of the nanosheets, measured via atomic force microscopy. Due to an unrecorded quantum confinement effect, nanosheet electronic properties scale toward semiconducting behavior (bandgap ≈3 eV) as nanosheet area increases. Furthermore, modeling X‐ray diffraction spectra shows that the root cause of the initial bandgap narrowing is lattice relaxation. Finally, with their broad range of isomorphically substituted ions, phyllosilicate nanosheets show remarkable catalytic properties for hydrogen production.

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Industrial rocks and minerals of Jordan: a review

Cited by 9 publications

References 90 publications

Detection of Limestone Quarries in Jordan Through Remote Sensing Data to Achieve Sustainable Utilization in Vernacular Architecture

Detection of Limestone Quarries in Jordan Through Remote Sensing Data to Achieve Sustainable Utilization in Vernacular Architecture

Implementation of Feldspar as a partial replacement material in cement mortar (exploration and application)

Exotic Electronic Properties of 2D Nanosheets Isolated from Liquid Phase Exfoliated Phyllosilicate Minerals

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