Muğla Yöresi Mermerlerinin. Mineralojik, Kimyasal Fiziksel ve Mekanik özellikleri

Block marble productions are made at four different stratigraphie level having different texture, colour and pattern in the Muğla region.. These marble levels from bottom to* top are Permocarbonifereous aged- banded and lens shaped white marbles interbedded with the same' aged phyllites, Trias aged white marbles found as lenses within schists with different hue and paiiem. Upper Cretaceous aged emery bearing white - greyish while marbles and. Paleocene aged red coloured Aegean Bordeaux Marble. In this paper the mineralogicaltchemicalt physical and mechanical properties of the marble samples obtained from the working quarries opened at different stratigraphie levels were determined and the inie dations of these roperties were investigated. The Muğla region marbles, generally have low porosity, high unii weight and are highly strong rocks having mineral sizes vary between 22ß and 769 ft As the mineral sizes increasef the uniaxial compressive strength, point load strength index,. flexural strength and Böhme surface attrition values,. Schmidt Hammer values and dry unit weight are found to decrease and as the dry unit weight increases the uniaxial compressive strength,, point load strength index., flexural.strength, Böhme surface attrition value, Shore hardness index and Schmidt hammer values are found to increase. The ratio between the uniaxial uniaxial. compressive strength (GC) and the point load strength index (Isc50) of the Mugla marbles is found to vaty between 15 and 26 and the mean relation is found to be represented by dc= 14„24 lsc+32.