tezontle
Sign in to savethumb|One of the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero showing tezontle walls with cantera accents. Tezontle () is a porous, highly oxidized, volcanic rock used extensively in construction in Mexico. It is usually reddish in color due to iron oxide. Tezontle is a well-cemented, agglomeritic and scoriaceous rock.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 61 inbound references to tezontle, and connects out to Mexico, Spanish and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Igneous rocks and Volcanology.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- volcanic rock
- Image
- Tezontle (5661406836).jpg
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Tezontle
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Construction
- Other uses
- Facades
- References
thumb|One of the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero showing tezontle walls with cantera accents. Tezontle () is a porous, highly oxidized, volcanic rock used extensively in construction in Mexico. It is usually reddish in color due to iron oxide. Tezontle is a well-cemented, agglomeritic and scoriaceous rock.
==Uses== ===Construction=== Tezontle can be mixed with concrete to form lightweight concrete blocks, or mixed with cement to create stucco finishes. Many colonial buildings in Mexico use the reddish cut tezontle on their facades.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tezontle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.