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Table 1 Identified lithotypes and their major characteristics

From: In situ investigation of stone heritage sites for conservation purposes: a case study of the Székesfehérvár Ruin Garden in Hungary

Lithology

Code

Description (mean open porosity %)

Microscopic characteristics

Ooidal peloidal limestone

OL

Creamy, coarse-grained highly porous (28%)

Ooidal-peloidal packstone

Shelly limestone

SL

Creamy yellowish, fine-grained porous (23%)

Shelly packstone

Polimict sandy calcarenite

SC

Brownish creamy, coarse-grained, porous (13%)

Quartz-rich wackestone

Red biomicritic limestone

RL

Red nodular limestone with very low porosity (< 1%)

Wackestone

Foraminifera-bearing limestone

FL

Light yellowish creamy, very porous (19%)

Peloid-microoncoid packstone

Travertine

T

Yellowish creamy, moderately porous (11%)

Boundstone

Quartz-porphyry (rhyolite)

Rh

Light brownish-purple brown with small phenocrysts of quartz and K-feldspar (4%)

Micro-crystalline porphyritic

Granite

Gr

Light red, fine-grained phaneritic (1%)

Hypidiomorphic crystalline

Marble

M

Light greyish white coarse crystalline (< 1%)

Inequigranular with serrated crystal boundaries