âWeâre performing more shows than ever before and the fans keep asking for more! Itâs been a real trip so far and Iâm happy that weâll have the chance to reach so many people that werenât able to catch our shows last year.â. â Brian Wilson.
The Repair, Replacement and Maintenance of Historic Slate Roofs. Slate is one of the most aesthetically pleasing and durable of all roofing materials. It is indicative at once of the awesome powers of nature which have formed it and the expertise and skill of the craftsman in handshaping and laying it on the roof.
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated metamorphic rock that is created by the alteration of shale or mudstone by low-grade regional metamorphism. The specimen shown above is about two inches (five centimeters) across.he color of slate is often determined by the amount and type of iron and organic material that are present in the rock. The tectonic environment for producing slate is usually a former sedimentary basin that becomes involved in a convergent plate boundary.