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Natural Stones:
Today, basalt is used in infrastructure such as railway ballast material, asphalt aggregate as new usage areas. In particular, due to the absence of free silica in the granules and powder basalt has been used as an alternative and healthy raw material in many other business sectors.
Basalt’s color is black, homogeneous, dense and heavy in microlitic or sometimes glassy texture. Its composition is based on amorphous materials and feldspars (such as, lobrador and anorthite, augite microlites, magnetite and olivine habeleri, and sometimes hornblende and ilmenite)
However, natural paving stones made of basalt that provide moisture and ventilation for the living beings underground as opposed to asphalt or concrete roads and ensure ecological compatibility.
Laying, moving or removing natural basalt stones does cause neither ecological problems nor financial. Infrastructure works such as water, telephone, electricity, sewage can be easily performed without loss of material. It is possible to repair the damaged surface with the same material.
It does not matter that in what season you are going to lay basalt paving stones. The coating of the basalt is not affected by the atmospheric conditions, and it can be made in any weather condition. However, for example, concrete asphalt coating can be applied only in hot and dry air and for concrete coating rain-free air is required.
In recent years, basalt stones have begun to be used both in buildings and in open and closed spaces in Turkey especially in big cities and touristic areas.
Basalts are magmatic rocks, so we know that basalt can be found in Turkey as volcanoes. These are the following:
Central Anatolian Volcanoes: Mount Erciyes and Mount Hasan
Eastern Anatolian Volcanoes: Nemrut Mountain, Süphan Mountain, Tendürek Mountain and Ağrı Mountain.
Basalt is the leading natural stone because it is least affected by weathering and abrasion conditions. Basalt will be indispensable in the near future in Turkey; its usage area is expanding day by day.Basalt is used in various thicknesses and sizes in every stage of architectural constructions, in upper and lower structure, in floor and outer coatings in buildings, in city roads, on pavements, in treasures and in gardening.
Considering its physical and mechanical properties: