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Chapter Six
Chapter Six
6.1 Quarry
Quarry: is place where rock is separated from its natural beds and
processed for use in construction.
iii) Heating: This method is suitable where only small blocks of more or
less regular shape are required and suitable rocks bedded in
horizontal layers, which have not much thickness to be quarried.
Sandstone
Sandstone can be used as:
•Slab
•Tiles
•Paving stone or cobble
•Wall brick
•Wall stone
•Building column
•Decorative structures
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