941 |
Pietra perlea di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Massive coarsely crystalline calcite with iridescence off incipient cleavages. Reddish brown in places, ferruginous matter coating some incipient cleavage planes. |
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. |
622 |
Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Brecciated meta-calcilutite with a few spherical two-phase calcite-filled cavities, and with limonitised siliceous veining. Note brown crystals of ?siderite filling cavities on underside of specimen. |
122 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Hematite-rich calcite marble, brecciated, with white calcite-filled veins. Triassic age. |
118 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
A marble tectonite of Triassic age. A sheared, deformed calcite marble breccia. |
121 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
A slumped/sheared breccia of Triassic age, with clasts of laminated marble, cut by calcite-filled fractures and late-stage stylolites. |
431 |
Breccia pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Marble breccia; a heavily stylolitised, metamorphosed polymict limestone conglomerate, probably resedimented. |
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. |
565 |
Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece |
A breccia of serpentinite, schistose calc-silicate and crystalline marble clasts in a lime-green serpentinite matrix. |
575 |
Serpentina di Valsabbia, from Valsabbia, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, a few of marble. |
962 |
Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece |
Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, and a few of marble. |
969 |
Breccia verde d'Egitto, breccia universale, from Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert, Egypt |
Metaconglomerate of metamorphic and igneous clasts (pink granite, banded tuff, serpentinite etc) in an epidotised matrix containing chlorite and abundant quartz grains. Cf no.679. |
569 |
Serpentina verde di Varallo, from Varallo, Novara, Piedmont, Italy |
Brecciated serpentinite-marble with light to dark green fragmented serpentinite clasts in fine-grained marble and vein calcite matrix. Serpentinite has local concentrations of fine-grained oxide mineral. |
594 |
Serpentina verde di Genova, from Genoa, Liguria, Italy |
Brecciated serpentinite. Broken clasts of pale green serpentine, platey 'striped' dark green serpentine and brown/white marble in a matrix of brown and white calcite. |
963 |
Serpentina di Santa Caterina, from Santa Caterina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Serpentinite, finely brecciated and veined with calcite. |
137 |
Marmo bianco e giallo, breccia nuvolata, locality unknown. |
A fractured, stylolitised recrystallised limestone or marble, with Liesegang rings of ferruginous colouring. |
688 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Polymict conglomerate with clasts of quartz, chert and silicified limestone. There is extensive intergrowth suturing about some marble/limestone clasts. |
258 |
Lumachella degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy |
Poorly sorted conglomerate with limestone and marble clasts together with scattered calcareous algal nodules and bivalves (oysters). |
451 |
Breccia di Lugano, from Lake Lugano, Varese, Lombardy, Italy |
Slumped (or sheared) limestone/marble breccia, with red and metallic grey hematite, and flecks of green chlorite and yellow-brown goethite. |
910 |
perhaps breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Heavily sheared and recrystallised limestone breccia, almost entirely altered to fine-grained marble. |
417 |
Breccia pavonazza, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone/marble breccia-conglomerate with red, calcareous mudstone/lateritic matrix, and stylolites. Some residual fossils appear to be present. |
949 |
Breccia Medicea or 'Africano', from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Tectonised polymict breccia-conglomerate of limestone and marble clasts with solution-modified clast contacts. |
139 |
Bigio antico, bigio morato, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Graphitic medium-grained marble with abundant stylolites, showing relics perhaps of crinoidal debris? Specimen is waxed and polished. |
184 |
Marmo bianco dell'Alpi from the Alps |
Medium-grained dolomite marble, very heavily fractured, the fractures infilled with transparent calcite with brown ferruginous tinting. |
947 |
Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared limestone conglomerate, metamorphosed to marble. |
703 |
Lapis lazuli, from Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan |
Rock composed of lazurite, probably with minor blue sodalite, and with flecks of pyrite and minor white calcite; from a marble deposit formed by contact metamorphism. |
566 |
Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece |
Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, a few of marble; extensive scattered crystals of oxide minerals, in a serpentine and calcite matrix. Heavily fractured, many fractures are filled with cross-fibres of chrysotile serpentine. |
429 |
Corallina di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia, medium-grained calcite marble clasts in a granular ferruginous calcite matrix. It is heavily fractured, the fractures filled with calcite. |
491 |
Breccia di Sarzana, from Sarzana, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy; or perhaps breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia with calcite filled fractures. |
146 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
A generally fine-grained marble with extensive development of microveins, alteration along some microveins affecting grain-size and colour. Note brown is filler/polishing compound. |
149 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared reticulated mass of fine-grained buff-coloured, and medium-grained, white calcite marble, grey graphite-rich in places. |
71 |
Nero antico from Jebel Aziza, Tunisia |
Very fine-grained black marble with intersecting shear fractures and white calcite/pyrite-filled extension veinlets. |
160 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine to medium-grained marble with variable traces of graphite/sulphide minerals and showing some lamination and folding. |
151 |
Bardiglio fiorito, from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy |
Tectonite of fine- to medium-grained white or grey calcite marble fragments in black graphite-rich marble; crushed and folded. |
144 |
Cipollino nero, most probably from Mili, Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Banded marble (metamorphosed impure limestone). Fine-grained grey layers have a shape fabric calcite which appears axial-planar to folded layering. Fabric is probably a lineation, although, on specimen edge, the grains are equant. |
972 |
Pudingo delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Polymict conglomerate with sandstone matrix, clasts: limestone, marble? rock. Fragments possibly volcanic? Some chalcedony. Scattered bivalves and gastropods in the matrix - ?marine |
145 |
Bigio antico, probably marmor Lesbium, most probably from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece |
Mylonitic marble. A coarse-grained lineated marble with patchy graphitic net-veins. |
143 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
A very coarse-grained marble with graphite-rich net-veining. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound. |
142 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
Very coarse-grained marble with rounded white clasts and net-veined graphitic matrix. |
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. |
416 |
Probably breccia di Sciro from Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
A nodular or conglomeratic limestone, sheared and metamorphosed to a marble breccia, with extensive clay-rich hematitic matrix and deformed calcite veins. Note extensive late-stage solution seamed stylolite development. |
901 |
Marmo salino dell'Elba, from the island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Fairly coarse-grained calcite marble; bands of sulphide/oxide impurities evident on side of specimen. |
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. |
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. |
902 |
Probably giallo antico from Chemtou, Tunisia, but possibly Giallo di Siena, Siena yellow from Monte Arrenti near Sovicille, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Very fine-grained calcite marble. A fractured, stylolitised, metamorphosed fossiliferous biomicrite limestone. Veins and voids are calcite-filled, and there are abundant small black manganese oxide dendrites. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
154 |
Bardiglio, from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy; very likely from Carrara, Massa e Carrara. |
Fine-grained calcite marble with stylolites still clearly evident. The white areas are coarser-grained calcite. |
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. |
159 |
Carrara ordinario, from the Apuan Alps, and probably Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine to medium-grained calcite marble speckled with crystals and grains of other minerals including the iron sulphide, pyrite. |
157 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Deformed fine- to medium-grained calcite marble. Probably originally a breccia, now much stretched and flattened. Note the yellow ferruginous fill to stylolites. |
66 |
'Marmo rosso di Seravezza', possibly from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy but perhaps from Greece. |
Fine-grained hematitic calcite marble |
156 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
A folded sheared limestone breccia, now a calcite marble, some layers with either finely disseminated graphite or sulphide minerals. The grain-size of the calcite ranges from very coarse to fine. |
189 |
Marmo di Candoglia, marmo del Duomo, from Candoglia, Novara, Piedmont, Italy |
Coarse-grained calcite marble with grey tinted 'veins', and with small grains of quartz scattered through it, giving a slightly mottled appearance. |
147 |
Bigio antico, marmor Lesbium, from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece |
A very coarse-grained graphite-bearing calcite marble. |
148 |
Bigio antico, marmor Lesbium, from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece |
A very coarse-grained graphite-bearing calcite marble. |
440 |
Corallina di Pisa, from Pisa, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of fine-grained calcite marble clasts. |
954 |
Fior di pesco Apuano from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia; a sheared and tectonised limestone conglomerate. |
955 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Heavily fractured calcite marble breccia; a sheared and tectonised limestone conglomerate. |
152 |
Porfido di Sardegna, from Sardinia, Italy |
Calcite marble with scattered large crystals of calcite in a fine-grained groundmass coloured grey by minute grains of ?graphite. Any brown coloration is polishing compound filling cavities where the large grains have fallen out. |
202 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia - a tectonised, sheared limestone, rich in hematite evident as red colouring and metallic grey grains. |
479 |
Breccia di Seravezza from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy; or breccia di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared breccia of calcite marble clasts; ferruginous staining gives yellow colouration. |
975 |
most probably breccia Medici di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite marble breccia; a sheared and metamorphosed limestone breccia. |
432 |
Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza; or perhaps breccia Medicea, from nearby Stazzema, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite marble breccia. |
477 |
Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of calcite marble clasts. |
903 |
Rosso antico brecciato, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Breccia of calcite marble clasts in a hematitic matrix. |
488 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared marble breccia; perhaps a tectonised burrowed/nodular limestone. |
621 |
Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Brecciated meta-calcilutite, with brown limonitic veining, occasionally widening into calcite-limonite-opaque oxide aggregates. Some of the brown may be filler. |
912 |
probably marmo Greco scritto, probably from Capo de Garde, Annaba (Hippo Regius), Algeria. |
A tectonised calcite marble, with fine and medium-grained graphite-rich bands; perhaps originally a marble breccia. |
119 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite. A sheared calcite marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures. |
918 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Sheared breccia of marble clasts. |
917 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Sheared marble breccia. |
490 |
Breccia di Sarzana, from Sarzana, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy; or perhaps breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia; a metamorphosed polymict limestone breccia with extensive solution seams. |
478 |
Breccia di Sciro, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared polymict marble breccia |
153 |
Bardiglio, from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy; very likely from Carrara, Massa e Carrara. |
Brecciated and veined fine-grained calcite marble, the veins of white calcite are in places iron-stained yellow. |
123 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Breccia-conglomerate of medium-grained white calcite marble clasts in a purple-red hematite-rich calcite matrix. |
124 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Breccia-conglomerate of medium-grained white calcite marble clasts in a purple-red hematite-rich calcite matrix. |
687 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps; or perhaps Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Lithic breccio-conglomerate with clasts of dolomitic marble, schist, and other predominantly metamorphic rocks. |
685 |
Breccia delle Alpi, possibly from the Apuan Alps, Italy |
Lithic breccio-conglomerate with mainly siliceous clasts including quartz grains, but some of limestone and marble are also present. It is possibly from the Triassic Verrucano Formation. |
446 |
probably breccia di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy; or breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia: a limestone breccio-conglomerate that has subsequently been metamorphosed. |
495 |
Breccia di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia-conglomerate |
389 |
Rosso brecciato, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Marble breccia; matrix-supported clasts of coarse-grained grey and finer-grained white marble. Perhaps a metamorphosed debris flow. |
456 |
Breccia di Cango, from Cango, Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Brecciated marble. |
420 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Breccia of medium to coarse-grained calcite marble clasts in a darkred marble matrix. |
406 |
Breccia di Settebasi fiorito, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared breccia of fine-grained calcite marble clasts in a hematitic calcareous matrix. |
405 |
Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared fine-grained calcite marble breccia. |
83 |
'Portasanta', locality unknown |
Pink and grey coarse-grained marble; a metamorphosed limestone breccia with sutured clast boundaries and yellowish stylolites. |
916 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite; a sheared marble with late-stage fractures and solution seams. Dendritic manganese oxides emanate from fractures.
|
974 |
Quarzo erborizzato dell'Elba, from the island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Calcarenite with some grey shell fragments and grains of a black mineral, perhaps schorl. |
961 |
Arenaria antica, locality unknown |
Coarse-grained bio calcarenite, with algal, foram, molluscan grains dominant. Matrix is colourless calcite. |
207 |
Breccia de' Gherardeschi, perhaps from Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone. A bio-pel micrite crowded with small intraclasts and shell debris. Anastomosing white material is calcite-replaced scleractinian coral. Note the extensive development of stylolites. |
623 |
Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Brecciated meta-calcilutite with veins of colourless calcite containing metallic yellow pyrite. It retains signs of soft sediment deformation in darker clasts. Some of the brown may be limonitic but most is filler/polishing compound. |
475 |
Cipollino mandolato, perhaps Tarteing, from Tarteing, Esplas de Sérou, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France |
Calcite marble. A metamorphosed nodular limestone, clay matter surrounding the nodules has altered to fine-grained chlorite. A few slender veins have ferruginous infills. |
120 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite. A sheared calcite marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures. |