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Marmo Greco duro; most probably Thasian marble, marmo Thaso from Cape Vathy, Island of Thasos (Thassos), East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece |
Medium-grained dolomite marble |
2 |
'Marmo porino', perhaps from the Island of Páros, Cyclades, South Aegean, Greece |
Medium-grained calcite marble. |
3 |
most probably Pentelic marble, marmo Pentelico, from Mt Pentéli, Attica, Greece |
Fine-grained calcite marble. |
4 |
almost certainly Proconnesian marble, marmo di Proconneso, from the island of Marmara, Balıkesir, Turkey |
Coarse-grained calcite marble with grey graphite-bearing banding. |
5 |
Thasian marble, marmo Thaso, most probably from Cape Vathy, Thasos (Thassos), East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece |
Coarse-grained dolomite marble. |
6 |
‘Marmo Lesbio’, most probably Thasian marble, marmo Thaso, from Cape Vathy, Thasos (Thassos), East Macedonia an |
Coarse-grained calcite or dolomite marble. |
7 |
most probably Thasian marble, marmo Thaso, from Cape Vathy, Thasos (Thassos), East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece |
Medium-grained dolomite marble. |
8 |
Statuary marble, marmo statuario, most probably from Carrara, Seravezza or elsewhere in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, Italy; but could also be from Mt Pentéli, Attica, Greece |
Fine-grained calcite marble |
9 |
Carrara marble, marmo di Carrara, statuario, almost certainly from Cararra,Tuscany Italy. |
Fine-grained calcite marble |
10 |
Marmo bianco di Pont Canavese, from Pont Canavese, Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
Medium-grained calcite marble |
11 |
Statuary marble, marmo statuario, almost certainly statuario di Monte Altissimo, from Monte Altissimo, north of Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite marble |
12 |
Palombino antico, probably from Turkey, but perhaps from the Apennines of Italy |
Biosparite limestone with abundant bivalve fragments. It fluoresces yellow strongly under longwave ultraviolet light. |
13 |
Palombino antico, possibly from the Apennines, Italy. |
Heavily recrystallised intraclastic limestone. The brown specks are polishing compound. |
14 |
Travertino di Tivoli, travertino Romano, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy |
Porous banded travertine deposit, specimen cut parallel with the bedding. |
15 |
Marmo di Segni, from Segni, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Sparsely peloidal/intraclastic fine-grained limestone (micrite or microspar) with calcite-filled vugs. The top surface shows the fenestral fabric of a birds-eye limestone. |
16 |
Lithographic limestone, pietra litografica, from the southern Franconian Alb (probably quarries at Solnhofen or Kelheim), Bavaria, Germany |
Upper Jurassic limestone from the Solnhofen Platternkalk Formation. A fossiliferous biomicrite with scattered acicular bioclasts (probably sponge spicules). |
17 |
Marmo bianco di Fuligno, from Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Burrowed micritic limestone, heavily fractured and stylolitised. |
18 |
Palombino di Mazzurega, from Mazzurega, near Fumane, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed micritic limestone with calcite-filled fractures, perhaps Lower Cretaceous 'Biancone'. |
19 |
Palombino di Ancona, from Ancona, Marche, Italy is not confirmed but may be correct. |
Burrowed micritic limestone with patchily distributed planktonic forams and other bioclasts. It is possibly a variety of 'calcare massiccio'. |
20 |
Marmo bianco di Parma, from Parma, Italy (not confirmed) |
White fine-grained limestone (micrite/micosparite) with abundant tiny bioclasts including calispheres/radiolarians, and with prominent stylolites. |
21 |
Marmo bianco di Malcesine, from Malcesine, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fine-grained limestone (micrite/microsparite) with burrows and scattered large bioclasts, including the aptychi of ammonites. Probably Cretaceous age. |
22 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, largely recrystallised, in a ferruginous sparry micritic matrix. |
23 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. |
24 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis but showing relics of a peloidal structure. It has slender ferruginous veins and small black manganese oxide dendrites. The sides of the specimen show that it is brecciated and cemented by a white sparry calcite matrix. |
25 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, with slender ferruginous veins. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite, probably the relics of fossils. |
26 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, with slender ferruginous veins. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite, probably the relics of fossils. |
27 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, with spar-filled cavities. Distinct shear-texture visible. |
28 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils), and stylolites. |
29 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, with slender ferruginous veins. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite, probably the relics of fossils. The colour has changed to pink as a result of heating. |
30 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. |
31 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. |
32 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils). |
33 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils), and minor dendrites of manganese oxides. |
34 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. It has been cut to show where the matrix has turned grey as a result of exposure to anoxic reducing conditions. Other parts of this specimen are the normal colour of a giallo antico. |
35 |
Giallo di Siena, Siena yellow, from Siena, Italy; most probably from the quarries at Monte Arrenti near Sovicille. |
Very fine-grained calcite marble or heavily altered limestone tinted yellow by secondary iron minerals. |
36 |
Giallo di Siena, Siena yellow, from Siena, Italy; most probably from the quarries at Monte Arrenti near Sovicille. |
Very fine-grained calcite marble or heavily altered limestone tinted yellow by secondary iron minerals. |
37 |
Broccatello di Siena, convent Siena, from Monte Arrenti near Sovicille, Siena, Italy |
Sheared limestone breccia with indications of soft sediment deformation fractures and extensive late-stage solution seams and stylolites. |
38 |
Marmo scuro di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (not confirmed) |
Biomicrite limestone densely packed with tests of foraminifera and other plankton, with calcite-filled veins and (on the sides of the specimen) dendrites of black manganese oxides. The whole stone has ferruginous staining constrained by the fracture pattern. |
39 |
Giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Italy; but more likely to be from the Verona area, Veneto, Italy |
Micritic limestone |
40 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, weakly metamorphosed and sheared, with yellow ferruginous stylolites, and scattered euhedral microcrystals of dark orange-brown iron oxide (goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite?) concentrated particularly in the stylolites. |
41 |
Giallo di Verona, Verona yellow, from Torbe, or more probably Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fossiliferous biomicrite limestone crowded with large and small bioclasts. |
42 |
Giallo di Verona, Verona yellow, giallo reale, from Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed/nodular bioclast-rich fine-grained limestone (micrite/microsparite) with extensive calcite-filled stylolites. Note that the darker stylolites are coloured by wax filler. It contains rare juvenile ammonoids. |
43 |
Pomorolo di Mizzolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fine-grained limestone crowded with rhombohedral microcrystals of calcite. It has prominent stylolites. Dark brown areas are wax filler. |
44 |
'Marmo giallo di Sentro', perhaps from Centro Tregnago, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fine-grained limestone with calcite-filled fractures; heavily stylolitised. |
45 |
Marmo giallo e turchino di Mizzolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed limestone. The grey matrix is a fossiliferous grain-supported bio-pel micrite limestone. The yellow burrow-filling has subhedral rhombic calcite crystals, appearing peloidal in places. It has stylolites and stylolitised pellet contacts. |
46 |
Marmo giallo di Lubiara, from Lubiara, Caprino Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Biomicrite limestone with scattered small bioclasts, slender fractures and stylolites. Sparse large intraclasts suggest it is from a debris-flow deposit. |
47 |
Marmo giallo di Torri del Benaco, giallo di Verona, Verona yellow, from Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fine-grained fossiliferous bioclast-rich limestone, burrowed, and showing prominent stylolites. |
48 |
Marmo giallo di Mizolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Sparry yellow limestone with scattered rhombohedral crystals of calcite, and with intraclasts of white fine-grained limestone. Dark coloured speckling is pyrite and wax filler. |
49 |
Mandolà di Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, nembro rosato, from San Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed nodular biomicrite limestone crowded with skeletal grains, and with stylolite development around the nodules. Dark brown area is wax filler. |
50 |
Mandolà di monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Nodular/burrowed bioclast-rich microsparite limestone with stylolites. |
51 |
Marmo carnagione, ‘rosetta di Bergamo’; the province of Bergamo, Italy, is not confirmed as the locality. |
Medium-grained white calcite marble. A metamorphosed sparite limestone preserving evidence of burrowing. It is almost white; the pink tint comes from discoloured grain-filler. |
52 |
‘Marmo carnagione d'Asti’; probably from Italy, but Asti, in Piedmont, is very doubtful. |
Limestone from the Upper Cretaceous Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated biomicrite with planktonic forams and abundant tiny bioclasts. |
53 |
Marmo carnagione, persichino di Mazzurega, from Mazzurega, near Fumane, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone from the Upper Cretaceous Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres, and with a few stylolites. |
54 |
Marmo carnagione di Terni, perhaps from the province of Terni, Italy |
Limestone, probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicite with abundant tiny planktonic forams and calcispheres. Bioclasts are calcite filled. Many sub-parallel slender calcite-filled fractures are evident, as are a few manganese oxide dendrites. |
55 |
Marmo carnagione, marmo cannellino chiaro, probably from the Umbria or Marches regions of the Apennines, Italy |
Pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene), mottled grey with a rich fauna of foraminifera and other plankton. |
56 |
Marmo carnagione, marmo cannellino scuro, probably from the Umbria or Marches regions of the Apennines, Italy |
Pelagic limestone from the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams, calcispheres and other skeletal debris. It has calcite filled structures and stylolites, and pink coloration constrained by a slender calcite-cemented fracture ('paesina' effect). |
57 |
Palombino rosso di Ancona, most probably from the area west of Ancona, in the eastern Apennines, Italy. |
Pelagic limestone from the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant tiny planktonic forams and calcispheres. Sparse slender calcite-filled fractures constrain the pink diagenetic colouring banding, analogous to the effect seen in pietra paesina. |
58 |
Marmo carnagione di Perugia, perhaps from Monte Malbe, near Corciano, Perugia, Umbria, Italy. |
Pelagic limestone from the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams, calcispheres, and other small bioclasts. It is crossed by slender healed fractures, and stylolites. |
59 |
Rossino degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy. |
Pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams, calcispheres, and other skeletal debris. A set of close-spaced healed fractures constrain the pink coloration, giving the effect of a pietra paesina. Stylolites are also present. |
60 |
Marmo carnagione di Camerino; Camerino, Macerata, Marches, Italy may be the correct locality. |
A pink pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene). It is a bioturbated biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres with some echinoderm and molluscan debris. |
61 |
Rosso antico, from Akra Tainaron (Cape Matapan), Mani peninsula, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece |
A fine-grained hematite-stained calcite marble of late Cretaceous to Eocene age. Slender black veins are evident, and trace manganese contributes to the red colouring. |
62 |
Rosso antico, from Akra Tainaron (Cape Matapan), Mani peninsula, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece |
A fine-grained hematite-stained calcite marble of late Cretaceous to Eocene age. Slender black veins are evident, and trace manganese contributes to the red colouring. |
63 |
Porporina di villa Adriana, locality unknown |
Hematite-rich banded limestone with some colourless sparry calcite-filled veins, and abundant cavities which are filled with wax on polished surfaces. Probably extensively recrystallised. |
64 |
Marmo rosso di Sabina; Sabina, Umbria, Italy is not confirmed as the locality. |
A laminated limestone containing bioclasts and peloids (pellet-sized grains) in a sparite matrix. |
65 |
Duke's red marble, from Newhaven, Derbyshire, England |
Recrystallised limestone of Lower Carboniferous age, containing abundant hematitic (and occasional limonitic) capillary inclusions dispersed in colourless calcite. |
66 |
'Marmo rosso di Seravezza', possibly from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy but perhaps from Greece. |
Fine-grained hematitic calcite marble |
67 |
Marmo rosso di Prodo, from Prodo, or more probably Colonnetta di Prodo, Terni, Umbria, Italy |
Limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres. Disrupted banding marks a layer that has transported and re-sedimented, probably the result of slumping. Fractures are calcite-filled. |
68 |
‘Marmo rosso di Taormina’; Taormina in Sicily is very doubtful. Possibly from the Apennines, Italy. |
Pink pelagic limestone, most probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Tertiary). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres. |
69 |
Marmo rosso d'Abruzzo, from Abruzzo, Italy. |
Burrowed bioclast-rich biomicrite limestone. |
70 |
Marmo rosso di Lugo, rosso Verona, from Lugo di Grezzana, in the Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
A burrowed bioclast and peloid-rich micritic limestone, probably from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
71 |
Nero antico from Jebel Aziza, Tunisia |
Very fine-grained black marble with intersecting shear fractures and white calcite/pyrite-filled extension veinlets. |
72 |
Ashford black marble, Derbyshire black marble, from Arrock mine or from quarries on Sheldon Moor, near Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England |
Bituminous fine-grained limestone of Carboniferous age. |
73 |
probably marmo nero di Roverè, perhaps from Prun, but more likely Roverè di Velo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Bituminous bioclastic limestone. The sides of the specimen show it has a distinctly laminar texture. |
74 |
Marmo nero di Torino from the province of Turin, or more probably Portoro from the Porto Venere area, Liguria, Italy. |
Black fine-grained limestone with a few thin yellow/white veins, and with distinctive black (organic matter?) veining. |
75 |
Marmo nero di Trapani, perhaps marmo nero di Erice from Monte San Giuliano; Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Bioclastic limestone with abundant black recrystallised relics of microfossils. The side of the specimen shows the black coloration is constrained by calcite-filled microfractures giving the effect of pietra paesina (ruin marble). |
76 |
Marmo nero di Como, from Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Black bituminous limestone with inclusions of organic matter, perhaps coprolites. |
77 |
Portasanta, from north west of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Large clasts of pale pink compact fine-grained limestone showing a reticulated network of stylolites. It is part of a breccia, and small areas of salmon-pink micritic matrix can be seen. |
78 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone breccia. Heavily fractured, the later fractures are filled with white calcite. Some mollusc shell fragments are present. |
79 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone, partially recrystallised. Abundant stylolites containing red iron oxides give a reticulated (net-like) appearance. |
80 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Partially recrystallised fine-grained compact limestone. Red and yellow iron oxides are concentrated in abundant stylolites, giving a reticulated (net-like) appearance. |
81 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone, partially recrystallised, with abundant stylolites. |
82 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
A breccia of pink micritic limestone clasts with intraclasts of a pink/grey breccia. A little dark red-brown hematitic matrix is visible in a few places. Abundant stylolites cross the stone and later fractures are filled with white calcite. White lines are scratches. |
83 |
'Portasanta', locality unknown |
Pink and grey coarse-grained marble; a metamorphosed limestone breccia with sutured clast boundaries and yellowish stylolites. |
84 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Breccia of poorly-sorted fine-grained pink and cream-coloured limestone clasts in a dark red hematite-bearing micritic matrix. The limestone clasts have a few bioclasts and stylolites. Late stage white calcite-filled fractures cross the specimen. |
85 |
Rosso Montecitorio, rosso Kumeta, from Monte Kumeta, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Pink pelagic limestone from the Rosso Ammonitico Formation (Triassic-Jurassic); a hardground with black manganese-rich crusts, a spar-infilled ammonoid, and spar-filled fractures. |
86 |
Cipollino mandolato, griotte, from Haute Pyrénées, France; and probably from the Campan valley. |
Lower Devonian tectonised and sheared red nodular limestone, with stylolites and white calcite-filled veins. |
87 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Limestone breccia. The clasts are pink micritic limestone with pink/grey intraclasts. The matrix is dark red-brown, hematitic. Abundant stylolites cross the stone and later fractures are filled with white calcite. |
88 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
White limestone with relics of bioclasts, spar filled veins and a few yellowish iron oxide-stained veins and stylolites. It is likely to be part of a large clast from a breccia. |
89 |
Cipollino verde, from near Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Folded medium-grained calcite marble with layers rich in green iron-bearing silicate minerals including chlorite and epidote. |
90 |
Cipollino verde, from near Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Folded medium-grained calcite marble with layers rich in green iron-bearing silicate minerals including chlorite and epidote. |
91 |
perhaps bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy; or cipollino, from Carystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Fine-grained carbonate mylonite, a heavily sheared carbonate rock. The slab face is cut parallel to the dextral movement direction. |
92 |
Cipollino Apuano, from Alta Versilia, Tuscany, Italy |
Strongly sheared marble. Banding of cream (iron-stained calcite) and green-grey (granular calcite with patchy chlorite/talc) portions at low angle to shear planes, results in tight folding of bands. |
93 |
Campan vert, cipollino verde mandolato, from the Haute Pyrénées (probably Pont de la Taulé), France |
Weakly metamorphosed Lower Devonian nodular limestone, the white fine-grained calcareous nodules have heavily chloritised rims in a paler green chlorite/calcite groundmass. |
94 |
Cipollino mandolato, most probably rosé vif des Pyrénées, from the area west of Esplas-de-Sérou, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France |
Weakly metamorphosed Lower Devonian nodular limestone, somewhat sheared and largely recrystallised; with chlorite coating the nodules. |
95 |
Cipollino rosso, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Fine to medium-grained folded impure limestone or calcite marble, some bands rich in red hematite. |
96 |
Cipollino rosso, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Fine to medium-grained folded impure limestone, now weakly metamorphosed to marble but the abundant debris suggesting it was in part a calcarenite. |
97 |
Cipollino rosso, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
A fine to medium-grained folded banded calcite marble, some bands rich in red hematite, others are coloured by grey graphite. A weakly metamorphosed impure limestone. |
98 |
Perhaps Campan vert from Espiadet, Campan valley, Haute Pyrénées, France, but it may be cipollino Apuano from Alta Versilia, Tuscany, Italy; or another cipollino |
Impure altered limestone or calcite marble with convoluted white calcite ‘veins’; sheared, with anastomising cream-coloured shear bands. The green coloration is predominantly green-grey granular to prismatic diopside/actinolite. |
99 |
Marmo Greco scritto from Capo de Garde, Annaba (Hippo Regius), Algeria |
A deformed, medium to coarse-grained calcite marble. A tectonite showing linear shear fabric. The dark grey graphite-rich zones result from the deformation of a breccia or vein system rather than a colour-banded rock. |
100 |
Marmo Greco scritto from Capo de Garde, Annaba (Hippo Regius), Algeria |
A deformed medium to coarse-grained calcite marble. A tectonite showing linear shear fabric. The banding is more continuous than in Corsi no.99. |