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Tezontle

One of the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero showing tezontle walls with cantera accents.

Tezontle (Spanish: tezontle) is a porous, highly oxidized, volcanic rock used extensively in construction in Mexico. It is usually reddish in color due to iron oxide.[1] Tezontle is a well-cemented, agglomeritic and scoriaceous rock.[2]

  1. ^ "Tezontle" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  2. ^ Segerstrom, K. (1962) Geology of South-central Hidalgo and Northeastern Mexico, USGS Bulletin 1104-C, page 124.

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