Pink - Limestone
Quarry Location: Fervenca, Pero Pinheiro, Sintra, Lisboa
Water Absorption: 0.16 %
Density: 2695 kg/m³
Flexural Strength: 18.0 MPa
Compressive Strength: 88.0 MPa
Recommended Usage: Wall and floor applications, countertops, mosaic, fountains, pool and wall capping, stairs, window s
Finishing Surface: Polished, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Tumbled
Additional Names: Lioz Vermelho Limestone, Lioz Encarnada, Encarnado Negrais, Encarnado de Negrais, Vermelho Negrais, Red Vidraco, Vidraco da Pedra Furada, Lioz Encarnado, Lioz Vermelho Limestone, Lioz Rosa
Lioz Rosa Limestone is a dark pinkish to brick red tonalities with dark red and occasionally grey shades and dar red streaks;fossilized micro-crystalline sedimentary rock.
LIOZ ROSA
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Stone with light redish color and some points of naturally spread cream color, showing almost marble characteristics. It is extremely strong, therefore specially suited for outside applications, due to its strength properties.
MICROSCOPIC FEATURES
Bioclastic, very spathized.
MACROSCOPIC FEATURES
Pink microcrystalline, bioclastic and abundantly fossiliferous, with plenty stylolites, some of them half open, and spathized.
PHYSICO-MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS
PTN water absorption: 0,16%
Apparent density: 2695Kg/m3
Open porosity: 0,42%
Bending resistance: 18 Mpa
Compression resistance: 88 Mpa