Abstract:

The sea pool is one of the world’s famous basins where the travertine is widely seen. Traverten offers variable structural characteristics such as porticity, layering, hardness depending on collapse conditions. This condition causes traverten to have physical and mechanical properties that change in a very broad range. This study aims to estimate the basic physical characteristics of Maritime traverten and the TSD values from the Vp and Vs values. As a natural building stone, marine traverts are exported to various regions of the Earth and have an important market both domestic and abroad. In this study, 56 carot samples taken from traverten blocks supplied from the Kaku region were determined by the visible porosite (na) and one-axis compression resistance (TSD) values of dry and saturated unit volume weight (gk, gd) and compared these characteristics with the length (Vp) and enine (Vs) ultrasonic wave speeds. In the marine traverts, the Vp and Vs wave speed values, which are measured by the rise of the gk, gd values, also linearly increased, on the contrary, due to the rise of the na values of the samples, a linear decline in the Vp and Vs wave speed has been observed. The TSD values have increased overly with the rise of the gk values, and the rise of the na values has decreased overly. With the rise of the Vp and Vs wave speeds, the TSD values have increased overly. The sliding module, the poisson ratio and the elasticity module values, which are of elastic parameters for marine traverts, are calculated and presented empirically from the values Vs and Vp.

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The Denizli basin is one of the most familiar basins in the world where large travertine deposits are existed. The travertine exhibits various structural properties such as porosity, layer, hardness depending on sedimentation conditions. This causes the travertine to have physical and mechanical properties varying in wide range. As a natural building stone, Denizli travertines are exported to various regions of the world and became an important market both in Turkey and abroad. In this study, the apparent porosity (na), dry and saturated unit volume weight (gk, gd) and uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) values of 56 cores taken from the travertine blocks obtained from the Kaklık region were determined and these results were compared to longitudinal compressional wave velocity (Vp) and shear wave velocity (Vs) values. Measured Vp and Vs wave velocity values were increased with increasing gk, gd values whereas Vp and Vs wave velocities were linearly decreased with increasing na values. UCS values increased exponentially with increasing gk values and decreased exponentially with the increase of na values. Vp and Vs wave velocities exponentially increased with increasing UCS values. Shear modulus, poisson ratio and modulus of elasticity values were also calculated empirically by measured Vp and Vs values.