101 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts in a chlorite-bearing greenish matrix. It has calcite-filled veins, and crinoids and other fossil debris within the clasts. |
102 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone and green Fe-silicate bearing clasts in a variably iron-stained micritic matrix . |
103 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone and limestone breccia clasts in a green chlorite/epidote-rich matrix, but with some characteristic black matrix also evident. |
104 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate; this specimen is cut almost entirely from a single pink somewhat fractured clast which has abundant stylolites. Small areas of black matrix are evident. |
105 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a black matrix. |
106 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts in a green chlorite-rich matrix. |
107 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts in a black matrix. This specimen is crossed by white quartz veins. |
108 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts in a green chlorite-rich matrix. |
109 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts, some green and chlorite-rich, in a grey matrix. |
110 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted limestone clasts, with stylolites and calcite-filled fractures |
111 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia with abundant crinoid and other fossil debris, in a dark grey matrix. The specimen is crossed by a white calcite vein. |
112 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts which have been partially oxidised. |
113 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted chlorite-rich limestone clasts, some with stylotised clast boundaries. |
114 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts. Note stylolites. |
115 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of pink somewhat fractured clasts in a black matrix. Note the calcite-filled vein following the clast margin. |
116 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia with abundant crinoid and other fossil debris, in a dark grey, partly oxidised to brown, matrix. |
117 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a chlorite-rich matrix crossed by stylolites. |
118 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
A marble tectonite of Triassic age. A sheared, deformed calcite 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. |
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. |
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. |
122 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Hematite-rich calcite marble, brecciated, with white calcite-filled veins. Triassic age. |
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. |
125 |
Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Breccia of almost black limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix. |
126 |
Petit antique, from area around Hèche and Hèchettes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Breccia of black and grey limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix. |
127 |
'Marmo bianco e nero d'Egitto', locality unknown |
Black fine-grained limestone with en echelon veins of white fibrous calcite, and with stylolites. |
128 |
Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Breccia of grey limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix. |
129 |
Bianco e nero di Portoferraio, from Portoferraio, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Black limestone breccia with white calcite-filled veins and fractures, some en echelon and fibrous in places. Abundant stylolites and thin fractures are filled with yellow siderite. |
130 |
Bianco e nero di Monte Pulciano, possibly from Montepulciano, Siena, Tuscany, Italy (see notes) |
Black limestone with white calcite-filled fractures and abundant stylolites. Stylolites and thin fractures contain yellow siderite. |
131 |
most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Black weakly metamorphosed fine-grained limestone with at least two generations of veining the first of white calcite and the second of yellow calcite coloured by goethite (iron hydroxide). |
132 |
most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Finely brecciated weakly metamorphosed fine-grained limestone with veins of saccharoidal to fibrous calcite; some veins and stylolites coloured yellow by included goethite. |
133 |
Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy |
Black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, and with stylolites, sinuous wider veins and pods of calcite coloured yellow by included goethite. |
134 |
Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy |
Breccia of black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, in a matrix of granular calcite coloured yellow by included goethite. Yellow stylolites are also prominent. |
135 |
Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy |
Black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, and with stylolites, and a few sinuous wider veins of calcite coloured yellow by included goethite. |
136 |
most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Very poorly sorted breccia of black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone in a white calcareous matrix; most of the stone is one larger clast which is crossed with white and ferruginous yellow veins. Note the yellow stylolites and stylolitic clast boundary. |
137 |
Marmo bianco e giallo, breccia nuvolata, locality unknown. |
A fractured, stylolitised recrystallised limestone or marble, with Liesegang rings of ferruginous colouring. |
138 |
Giallo tigrato, from Monte Calvo, Rieti, Lazio, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite with spar-filled stylolites, fractures and cavities, and with extensive development of dendritic black iron/manganese oxides. |
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. |
140 |
Bigio antico, bigio morato, possibly from the Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Partially recrystallised fine-grained limestone. Relics of corals/crinoids/bivalves are preserved. Note a few spar-filled fractures and stylolites. |
141 |
Bigio antico, bigio morato, locality unknown |
Grey-brown bioturbated limestone with a few mollusc fragments. Note white coarse-grained spar-filled cavities and fractures, and abundant stylolites. The surface is waxed and polished. |
142 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
Very coarse-grained marble with rounded white clasts and net-veined graphitic matrix. |
143 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
A very coarse-grained marble with graphite-rich net-veining. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
150 |
Marmo cenerino di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Largely recrystallised limestone with relict larger benthic forams (alveolines). It is heavily styolitised. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
155 |
Marmo fiorito di Casale, perhaps Lumachella di San Vitale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Heavily recrystallised limestone with relict bivalves and other rather obscure traces of fossils. |
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. |
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. |
158 |
Marmo mischio di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Heavily recrystallised foraminiferous limestone. Large benthic forams are visible on the side of specimen. |
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. |
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. |
161 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Gibellina Vecchia, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Recrystallised limestone; originally probably a noular micrite/microspar, voids filled by sparry calcite. Buff-coloured area are filler. |
162 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary breccia with fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestone (dark) and pink Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone. |
163 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Capo Gallo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary breccia with fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestone (dark) and pink Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone. |
164 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Bisaquino, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Slumped green pelagic limestone with perhaps submarine cement infills of neptunian dykes. Note stylolites. Less fractures than the similar specimen no.171. |
165 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Castronuovo di Sicilia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone, perhaps resedimented; micrite/microsparite crowded with tiny bio/intraclasts and showing traces of grading in places. Note extensive solution seams, stylolites and calcite-filled fractures. |
166 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Feudo Lalia, Alia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Heavily fractured stylolitised birds-eye limestone with extensive fenestral fabric (calcite-filled vugs). Matrix is fossiliferous peloidal micrite/microspar. |
167 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Synsedimentary limestone breccia. |
168 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Fine-grained red limestone with synsedimentary slump folds. |
169 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Re-sedimented limestone of the Rosso Ammonitico Formation. It is heavily stylolitised, and the colour is diagenetic. |
170 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from River Verdura or Sosio, perhaps at San Carlo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone breccia. A syn-sedimentary breccia with matrix of pink Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone. |
171 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Sicily, Italy; perhaps Cefalù area |
This appears to be submarine cement infills of neptunian dykes in a pelagic green limestone. It is heavily fractured. |
172 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone. Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia cut by a neptunian dyke. |
173 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Castellammare, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Bioturbated limestone, most probably of the Cretaceous-Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. It is a fossiliferous pelagic biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres together with some molluscan debris. Note the calcite-filled fractures. |
174 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary slump breccia with voids infilled by submarine cement. Note pervasive calcite-filled fractures. |
175 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Tertiary limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous pelagic biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres, with some molluscan debris. Note calcite-filled fractures. |
176 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Rocca delli Panni, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia with voids filled by submarine cement. |
177 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Slumped syn-sedimentary limestone breccia. |
178 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
A fractured Rosso ammonitico red limestone with prominent stromatactis cavities filled with grey and white calcite. It has stylolites and white calcite-filled veins. |
179 |
Rosso di Malcesine, from Malcesine, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres. It has extensive development of orange-red stylolites. |
180 |
Marmo palombino di Sestri, from Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Liguria, Italy |
Limestone; a pel-sparite with what look like birds-eyes, and with scattered molluscan and algal debris. One corner of the specimen has compact banded travertine. |
181 |
Nembro di San Giorgio, from Verona, Veneto, Italy; but San Giorgio is doubtful. |
Peloidal/intraclastic limestone with fine grained micrite/microspar matrix, and with pervasive solution-seams. |
182 |
Rosa corallo, from Verona, Veneto, Italy; Torri del Benaco is doubtful. |
Limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Eocene). A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant tiny bioclasts and large intraclasts floating in matrix, probably a debris flow. Note the conspicuous stylolites. |
183 |
Marmo rosso di sant'Eligio, from Sant'Eligio, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Nodular Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone, the colour leached along fractures and stylolites, which are spar-filled in places. Contains ammonites and a few patchy areas rich in other fossil debris. |
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. |
185 |
Ceppo scuro del lago di Como, from Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Fine grained calcarenite with some primary lamination and signs of soft sediment deformation. |
186 |
Rosso di Caprino Veronese, from Caprino Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone, probably of Cretaceous-Tertiary age; a burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains. Note the extersitu stylolite development. |
187 |
Cottanello, from Cottanello, Rieti, Lazio, Italy |
Cretaceous-Eocene pelagic limestone. A brecciated biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres. Calcite-filled fractures and voids are cut by late stage red clay-filled stylolites. |
188 |
Rosso venato di Terni, marmo carnagione, from the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy |
Marly limestone; a Cretaceous-Eocene pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation, the colouring constrained by microfractures to give a 'ruin marble' effect. It is mottled with the shells of planktonic microfossils, and it has prominent stylolites and en echelon sets of white calcite-filled fractures. |
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. |
190 |
Marmo giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Recrystallised limestone or marble, with calcite-filled fractures, and with ferruginous orange stylolites. |
191 |
Nembro di Monta Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous burrowed peloidal biosparite. |
192 |
Rosso della Corona, probably from Monte Corona, near Umbertide, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Eocene). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams. Note the salmon-pink stylolites. |
193 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone breccia with stylolites and stylolitic clast boundaries. Some relic shell fragments are evident. Fractures are filled with white calcite. |
194 |
Marmo della Gaetta, from Gaetta, Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Heavily recrystallised and fractured ?calcarenite, with disseminated pyrite on fractures. |
195 |
Mandolato di Torbe, from Torbe, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Pelagic limestone. Burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains, and with extersitu stylolite development. Dark brown is filler/polishing compound. |
196 |
Fior di persico, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble; a tectonised and sheared limestone breccia-conglomerate. |
197 |
Rosso del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy |
Ferruginous micaceous calcarenite. |
198 |
Occhiadina di Bergamo, from Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy |
Birds-eye limestone; probably originally a peloidal micrite. |
199 |
Corso della mola di S.Ambrogio, from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy; but probably not from Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella |
Limestone; a fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with bioclasts including planktonic forams. It is heavily stylolitised. |
200 |
Mandolato di Carteletto, from the area north of Verona, perhaps Castelletto di Brenzone, Verona, Veneto, Italy; or from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Fossiliferous burrowed biomicrite limestone crowded with bioclasts, spar-filled bivalve and gastropod shells. Colour mottling is diagenetic. |