Download or read book Mineralogical Characterization of the Shelburne Marble and the Salem Limestone written by E. S. McGee and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shelburne Marble and the Salem Limestone have been used extensively in buildings and monuments, and for this reason they were selected as test stones for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program stone exposure studies. Mineralogical characterization of fresh Shelburne Marble and fresh Salem Limestone provides a basis for recognizing mineralogical changes that may occur in samples when they are weathered.