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escayola

escayola

A type of hard plaster or stucco.
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The details are plaster or escayola columns, detailed pilasters, gables, decorative cornices and moldings.
En monumentos como la Alhambra o los palacios del siglo XV en el norte de Marruecos podemos apreciar como los mosaicos geometricos se fueron adaptando a los materiales y tecnicas artesanales de la epoca pasando de la terracota esmaltada a la madera y la escayola, o mas recientemente a tecnicas industriales como el azulejo, el cemento, el metal o el textil.
The Puncoviscana Formation encompasses a thick and complex metaturbiditic sequence whose Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian age is constrained by trace fossils, ages from detrital zircons and volcanic intercalations, and by the Early Cambrian intrusion of the Canani and Santa Rosa de Tastil granite batholiths (Bachman et al., 1987; Acenolaza and Toselli, 2009; Hongn et al., 2010; Adams et al., 2011; Augustsson et al., 2011; Escayola et al., 2011).
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