Editorial

Document Type

Letter to the Editor

Publication Date

8-8-2019

Publication Title

Applied Earth Science

Volume

128

Issue

3

First page number:

71

Last page number:

72

Abstract

Welcome to issue three of volume 128 of Applied Earth Science. This issue showcases some of the breadth of research published in Applied Earth Science and starts with a paper by Johannesson et al. (2019Johannesson B, Sigfusson TI, Franzson H. 2019. Suitability of Icelandic basalt for production of continuous fibres. Appl Earth Sci. 128(3):73–78.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]), who focus on a somewhat atypical use for basalt, the most common rock on Earth’s surface. The use of basalt as a building stone and aggregate is well known, but it can also be cast for use in industrial applications that make use of the natural characteristics of the stone. However, Johannesson et al. (2019Johannesson B, Sigfusson TI, Franzson H. 2019. Suitability of Icelandic basalt for production of continuous fibres. Appl Earth Sci. 128(3):73–78.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) examine another potential use of basalt from Iceland in the form of material that can be used to generate continuous basalt fibres, a substance that has better physicomechanical properties than fibreglass but (given the right feedstock) is cheaper to produce than carbon fibre. Their research indicates that although no single Icelandic basalt sampled during their study is ideally suited for use as a basalt fibre feedstock, the addition of small amounts of CaO to some of their samples significantly improves the potential of these basalts, suggesting that Iceland may be capable of providing basalt that can be used in this manufacturing process.

Disciplines

Earth Sciences

Language

English

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