Marble tombstones deterioration

The full methodology of retrospective analysis was applied for the case of marble tombstone deterioration in an urban and a remote cemetery near New York City (8,9). In this exercise it was found that our technique may estimate rural SO2 concentrations acceptably well, but it does not reproduce detailed structure of urban concentrations adequately. The main reasons are uncertainty about the effective release heights of sources and a lack of detailed local emission Information. For the purposes of metal corrosion, the current state of the retrospective reconstruction of environmental histories is not sufficiently quantitative to warrant extraction of damage functions. 

Husar, R.B., Patterson, D.E. (1985d). Marble tombstone deterioration in New York City area.Report to EPA Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC. 

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