TY - GEN AU - Kaur, Gurmeet & Others TI - Natural stone and world heritage : Delhi-Agra, India SN - 9780367251802 U1 - 691.20954 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden PB - CRC Press KW - United States KW - World Heritage areas KW - India--Agra KW - India--New Delhi KW - Building stones N1 - Contents Foreword lX Preface X Acknowledgements xii List of acronyms xv 1 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, International Union of Geological Sciences and Heritage Stone Subcommission 1 2 Delhi and Agra vis-a-vis monuments 23 3 Repository of stones used in Delhi and Agra UNESCO Sites: Aravalli Mountain Belt and Vindhyan Basin 37 4 UNESCO Heritage Sites of Delhi and Agra: An account 60 5 Historical quarries of the Makrana Marble, the Vindhyan Sandstone and the Delhi Quartzite: An account 109 6 Preservation, conservation and restoration of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Delhi and Agra 142 7 Conclusions 151 References 156 Glossary 168 Natural Stone and World Heritage 171 ER -