تراڤرتين

شرفات من التراڤرتين في Mammoth Hot Springs، منتزه يلوستون الوطني، في 2016
Calcium-carbonate-encrusted, yet growing moss, early stage of porous travertine formation.
التراڤرتين في حائط عمره 400 سنة.

التراڤرتين Travertine هي صخر رسوبي كثيفٍ متماسكٍ من أشكال الحجر الجيري، ويوجد في معظم الأحيان على شكل طبقات ينضمُّ بعضها إلى بعض. ويكون معظم الترافرتين ذا لون أبيض أو أبيض مائل للصفرة. ويتكون بصورة رئيسية من كربونات الكالسيوم، ويتشكَّل حينما تنفصل كربونات الكالسيوم عن الماء من خلال التبخر. ويُستعمل الترافرتين في تزيين الأبنية بسبب سهولة قطعه.

وينشأ الترافرتين في المناطق التي يتوافر فيها الحجر الجيري، حيث يحوي ماء الأرض الجاري كربونات الكالسيوم. ويتشكل عادة حول مَصابّ الينابيع الحارة، وفي داخل الجداول. وتحتوي تكوينات الصخور في الكهوف، والتي يُطلق عليها اسم الهوابط والصواعد، على الترافرتين بصورة رئيسية.

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الاستخدام كمادة بناء

Travertine is often used as a building material. It typically lacks planes of weakness, and its high porosity makes it light in weight for its strength, gives it good thermal and acoustic insulating properties, and makes it relatively easy to work. Dense travertine makes excellent decorative stone when polished.[1]

The Romans mined deposits of travertine for building temples, monuments,[2] aqueducts,[3] bath complexes,[4] and amphitheaters such as the Colosseum,[5] the largest building in the world constructed mostly of travertine.[6] In Italy, well-known travertine quarries exist in Tivoli and Guidonia Montecelio, where the most important quarries since Ancient Roman times can be found.[7] The Tivoli quarries supplied the travertine from which Gian Lorenzo Bernini selected material from which to build the famous Colonnade of St. Peter's Square in Rome (colonnato di Piazza S. Pietro) in 1656–1667.[8] Michelangelo also chose travertine as the material for the external ribs of the dome of St Peter's Basilica.[9]

Travertine regained popularity as a building material in the Middle Ages.[10] The central German town of Bad Langensalza has an extant medieval old town built almost entirely of local travertine.[بحاجة لمصدر] 20th Century buildings using travertine extensively include the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and Shell-Haus in Berlin. The travertine used in the Getty Center and Shell-Haus constructions was imported from Tivoli and Guidonia.[11]

Travertine is one of several natural stones that are used for paving patios and garden paths.[12] It is sometimes known as travertine limestone or travertine marble; these are the same stone, although travertine is classified properly as a type of limestone, not marble. The stone is characterised by pitted holes and troughs in its surface. Although these troughs occur naturally, they suggest signs of considerable wear and tear over time. It can also be polished to a smooth, shiny finish, and comes in a variety of colors from grey to coral-red. Travertine is also available in tile sizes for floor installations.[13][14]

Travertine is one of the most frequently used stones in modern architecture. It is commonly used for indoor home/business flooring, outdoor patio flooring, spa walls and ceilings, façades, and wall cladding. The lobby walls of the modernist Willis Tower (1970) (formerly Sears Tower) in Chicago are made of travertine.[15] Architect Welton Becket frequently incorporated travertine into many of his projects.[16] The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is clad with over 3 million pounds (about 1360 tonnes) of Ambra Light travertine from the Tivoli quarries.[17] Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe used travertine in several of his major works, including the Toronto-Dominion Centre,[18] S.R. Crown Hall,[19] the Farnsworth House[20] and the Barcelona Pavilion.[21]

The New Mexico State Capitol has its rotunda finished with travertine[22] mined from a deposit west of Belen, New Mexico. Stone from this quarry is also used in buildings at the University of New Mexico.[23][24]


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