• Prevailing Applications: Masonry, wall coverings
  • Extracting Location: Cabeça Veada, Mendiga, Porto de Mós, Leiria
Semi-rijo Cabeça Veada

Cream to light cream limestone, dominantly fine to medium grained and sometimes with brownish spots, essentially calciclastic, with oöliths and bioclasts and sparitic cement.

  • Compression breaking load 950 kg/cm2
  • Compression breaking load after freezing test 820 kg/cm2
  • Bending strength 128 kg/cm2
  • Volumetric weight 2400 kg/m3
  • Water absorption at N.P. conditions 4.1%
  • Apparent porosity 9.4 %
  • Thermal linear expansion coefficient max. val. 5.7 x 10 -6 perº C
  • Abrasion test 4.8 mm
  • Impact test: minimum fall height 35 cm

Obs. Frost resistance is 48 freeze-thawing cycles. Given the thickness of the layers and the variability of the unit (mainly with depth), softer varieties may occur.