
iScience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(8), P. 110576 - 110576
Published: July 25, 2024
The Helankou petroglyphs offer precious data for understanding the lifeways of ancient pastoralists. However, in Helankou, combination unique climate conditions and complex hydrochemical environments has accelerated weathering sandstone-petroglyph carriers, leading to numerous at risk vanishing. In response, this study employed freeze-thaw wet-dry cycle experiments simulate actual environmental sandstone. Subsequently, sandstone that underwent was subjected further testing analysis. goal comprehensively understand performance change patterns micro-mechanisms under stress, thus providing scientific theoretical support petroglyph conservation. results indicate effects wet-dry, degradation processes can be attributed a diverse mechanisms such as swelling-shrinkage, hydrolysis, frost heave, dissolution, salt crystallization, which alter physical parameters, particle size distribution, mineral composition, structural integrity
Language: Английский