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Description / Table of Contents: Limestone is a highly successful and widely used building material, found in many important historic buildings and new monuments around the world. Whilst its success reflects its durability under a wide range of environmental conditions, there are still important questions surrounding the selection, use and conservation of building limestones. In order to make best use of new limestone today, and to conserve old limestone most effectively, we need to bring modern research methods to bear on understanding the characteristics of different limestones, what mortars to use, and how key limestones have responded to polluted atmospheres. This volume brings together recent inter-disciplinary research on these issues, illustrating the diversity of innovative techniques that are now being applied to furthering our understanding of building limestones.

Description / Table of Contents: B. J. Smith, W. B. Whalley, P. A. Warke, and A. Ruffell: Introduction and background: interpretations of landscape change / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:vii-x, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.01 --- The British Isles --- David K. C. Jones: Evolving models of the Tertiary evolutionary geomorphology of southern England, with special reference to the Chalklands / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:1-23, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.02 --- David K. C. Jones: On the uplift and denudation of the Weald / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:25-43, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.03 --- Peter Walsh, Michael Boulter, and Iwona Morawiecka: Chattian and Miocene elements in the modern landscape of western Britain and Ireland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:45-63, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.04 --- Y. Battiau-Queney: Crustal anisotropy and differential uplift: their role in long-term landform development / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:65-74, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.05 --- Mainland Europe and Scandinavia --- Väino Puura, Rein Vaher, and Igor Tuuling: Pre-Devonian landscape of the Baltic Oil-Shale Basin, NW of the Russian Platform / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:75-83, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.06 --- Karna Lidmar-Bergström: Uplift histories revealed by landforms of the Scandinavian domes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:85-91, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.07 --- Piotr Migoń: Inherited landscapes of the Sudetic Foreland (SW Poland) and implications for reconstructing uplift and erosional histories of upland terrains in Central Europe / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:93-107, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.08 --- Roberto Basili, Fabrizio Galadini, and Paolo Messina: The application of palaeolandsurface analysis to the study of recent tectonics in central Italy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:109-117, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.09 --- Carlo Bartolini: An overview of Pliocene to present-day uplift and denudation rates in the Northern Apennine / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:119-125, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.10 --- Africa and the Middle East --- Alastair W. Baird and Andrew J. Russell: Structural and stratigraphic perspectives on the uplift and erosional history of Djebel Cherichira and Oued Grigema, a segment of the Tunisian Atlas thrust front / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:127-142, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.11 --- R. W. H. Butler and S. Spencer: Landscape evolution and the preservation of tectonic landforms along the northern Yammouneh Fault, Lebanon / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:143-156, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.12 --- Mats G. Eriksson: Influence of crustal movements on landforms, erosion and sediment deposition in the Irangi Hills, central Tanzania / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:157-168, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.13 --- Asia --- David N. Petley and Sharon Reid: Uplift and landscape stability at Taroko, eastern Taiwan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:169-181, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.14 --- P. A. Fothergill and H. Ma: Preliminary observations on the geomorphic evolution of the Guide Basin, Qinghai Province, China: implications for the uplift of the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:183-200, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.15 --- Lewis A. Owen, W. Dickson Cunningham, Brian F. Windley, J. Badamgarov, and D. Dorjnamjaa: The landscape evolution of Nemegt Uul: a late Cenozoic transpressional uplift in the Gobi Altai, southern Mongolia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:201-218, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.16 --- The Americas --- Catherine T. Conrad and Houston C. Saunderson: Temporal and spatial variation in suspended sediment yields from eastern North America / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:219-228, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.17 --- Carlos H. Costa, Aldo D. Giaccardi, and Emilio F. González Díaz: Palaeolandsurfaces and neotectonic analysis in the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:229-238, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.18 --- Mauro Coltorti and Cliff D. Ollier: The significance of high planation surface in the Andes of Ecuador / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:239-253, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.19 --- Antarctica --- M. A. Summerfield, D. E. Sugden, G. H. Denton, D. R. Marchant, H. A. P. Cockburn, and F. M. Stuart: Cosmogenic isotope data support previous evidence of extremely low rates of denudation in the Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 162:255-267, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.20