496 |
Breccia degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy |
Debris flow; containing poorly sorted matrix-supported white limestone and other intraclasts in a pink limestone matrix. Sample has calcite-filled fractures. |
452 |
Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Limestone breccio-conglomerate, very poorly sorted; the matrix is clear crystalline calcite in places, elsewhere full of microfauna-rich grains. |
453 |
Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Poorly sorted limestone conglomerate with extensive styolitic suturing of clast boundaries. The matrix is micritic with less forams than no. 454. It has some spar-cemented intraclasts and a few dark grey clasts. Some dendritic manganese oxides are evident on the sides of the specimen. |
454 |
Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Poorly sorted limestone conglomerate with extensive styolitic suturing of clast boundaries. The matrix is micritic with abundant forams. Yellow areas are filler. |
441 |
Breccia del lago di Como, from Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Peloidal limestone breccia. The matrix is pale brown transparent calcite, as compact banded travertine in places. Note extensive brown filler/polishing compound. |
447 |
Breccia del Lago di Garda, from Lake Garda, and perhaps from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Limestone; a burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains, with extersitu stylolite development. Dark brown area is filler. |
466 |
Breccia del Largo di Garda, from Lake Garda, Lombardy, Italy |
Rosso ammonitico Middle-Upper Jurassic nodular pelagic limestone. |
450 |
Breccia della Gaetta, from Gaetta (Gaeta), Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone breccio-conglomerate in pink limestone matrix. |
421 |
Breccia della villa Adriana, breccia Quintilina, most probably from Levanto, Liguria, Italy |
Serpentinite breccia. |
408 |
Breccia della Villa Casali, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. Note complex sutured solution-modified clast contacts. Contains shell fragments among clasts. |
686 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Poorly sorted quartz/quartzite conglomerate with subsidiary lithic clasts. It is silicified, note clay matrix and quartz veins. |
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. |
689 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Polymict conglomerate with clasts of quartz, chert and silicified limestone. |
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. |
684 |
Breccia delle Alpi, possibly from the Apuan Alps, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate; most clasts are silicified red limestone and rock crystal, a small proportion are calcareous or dolomitic. It is possibly from the Triassic Verrucano Formation. |
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. |
394 |
Breccia di Aleppo, from Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites. |
426 |
Breccia di Arbe, breccia a semesanto di Dalmazia, from Island of Rab, Primorje-Gorski, Croatia |
Polymict conglomerate of limestone clasts. |
425 |
Breccia di Bologna, from Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate with microspar matrix. Clasts are predominantly of limestone; some are a jasper-like pseudobreccia in appearance. |
438 |
Breccia di Brescia, from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone breccia. |
449 |
Breccia di Brianza, from the area of Brianza , Lombardy, Italy |
Fine-grained limestone conglomerate. Clasts include ooliths and various beige, cream and white limestones, in a sparry calcite matrix. |
456 |
Breccia di Cango, from Cango, Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Brecciated marble. |
435 |
Breccia di Canneto, from Canneto, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of grey micritic limestone clasts showing 'paesination' (microfracture constrained iron-staining like that of pietra paesina, q.v.) |
495 |
Breccia di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia-conglomerate |
487 |
Breccia di Casale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Bioclastic limestone with large benthic foraminifera. |
410 |
Breccia di Casteldaccia, from Calvario, near Casteldaccia, Palermo, Sicily |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with pervasive sutured solution-modified clast boundaries. |
462 |
Breccia di Cori, from Cori, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
Intraformational limestone breccia of peloidal limestone (fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestones) in pink Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone matrix. |
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. |
442 |
Breccia di Mastro Simone, from S.Angelo Romano, Roma, Lazio, Italy |
Limestone; a burrowed nodular biopel-micrite, perhaps from the Jurassic Rosso ammonitico formation. |
525 |
Breccia di Modena, from Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
Micrite/microsparite limestone with abundant bioclasts, extensively fractured and stylolitised. Dendritic iron and manganese oxides are developed along stylolites. |
526 |
Breccia di Modena, from Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
Micrite/microsparite limestone with abundant bioclasts, extensively bioturbated, fractured and stylolitised. Dendritic iron and manganese oxides are developed along stylolites. |
473 |
Breccia di Monsumano, from Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy |
Slumped/sheared limestone breccia with calcite-filled fractures and with small amounts of manganese oxides as dendrites and stylolites. |
494 |
Breccia di Napoli, from Naples, Campania, Italy |
Micritic limestone with pale grey dolomite nodules; calcite-filled fractures, and disseminated dendritic pyrolusite. Brown is filler. |
695 |
Breccia di Perugia, from Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate with predominantly limestone clasts. Note sutured/styloliitised clast boundaries. Common larger benthic forams, scarcer calcareous algae. Creamy-yellow micritic matrix with microfossils. |
486 |
Breccia di Pistoja, from Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy |
Fractured, solution-modified, polymict limestone conglomerate. The micritic matrix contains large benthic forams. The sample has calcite-filled fractures and some dendritic pyrolusite in both clasts and matrix . |
471 |
Breccia di Ponte Salaro, from Ponte Salaro, near. Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with abundant nummulites, molluscan and other skeletal debris. It is extensively stylolitised. The micritic matrix has a rich microfauna. It has large areas of yellowish filler and brown areas around clasts are also filler. |
476 |
Breccia di Prato, from Prato, Florence, Tuscany, Italy (unlikely) |
Poorly sorted polymict limestone breccia with many fossiliferous clasts. Clasts have green chloritic rims. |
692 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate of diverse limestones and minor chert/chalcedony clasts, fairly well sorted and elongate with some alignment. Matrix is extensively spotted with Fe/Mn, with dendrites around rims of some clasts. |
693 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate with extensively fractured clasts. These are predominantly limestone; a few are red in colour. Some show 'paesination' - microfracture constrained patterns of ironstaining like pietra paesina, and these also have a rich microfauna. The matrix is calcarenite. |
694 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate of predominantly limestone pebbles, with abundant green silicate grains in matrix. Green silicate grains are subhedral-euhedral crystals Well-rounded clasts have heavily altered rims. Matrix is white micrite/microcrystalline calcite. Note brown is filler. |
696 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Calcarenite-polymict limestone conglomerate with clear spar matrix. Some darker grains are ?volcanic??, some is dendritic Mn; but also some is brown filler. |
697 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate. Clasts are predominantly limestone, but some are dolomitic and some siliceous. The matrix is calcarenite. Some brown is goethite, but some is filler/polishing compound. |
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. |
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. |
478 |
Breccia di Sciro, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared polymict marble breccia |
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. |
477 |
Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of calcite marble clasts. |
432 |
Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza; or perhaps breccia Medicea, from nearby Stazzema, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite marble breccia. |
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. |
947 |
Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared limestone conglomerate, metamorphosed to marble. |
690 |
Breccia di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy |
Conglomerate, with igneous clasts showing altered margins, in limestone matrix with well-preserved microfauna. |
952 |
Breccia di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared polymict limestone conglomerate. The shearing may have been synsedimentary: Solution seams and stylolites are pervasive. Perhaps a sheared debris flow. |
474 |
breccia di Taormina, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy; or perhaps breccia della Villa Casali, locality unknown |
Polymict breccia of limestone clasts in red micritic matrix. |
427 |
Breccia di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate, clasts mainly of pink or creamy white pelagic limestone, some rimmed with dendritic manganese oxides. It also contains clasts of coarsely crystalline white calcite. |
467 |
Breccia di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy |
Black limestone breccia with white limestone matrix. |
691 |
Breccia di Torrita, from Torrita Tiberina, near Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate of limestone pebbles, bordering on compact calcite travertine. The cement is calcarenite. There is extensive brown filler. |
480 |
Breccia di Val di Radi, breccia di Siena, from Valle di Radi, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared micritic limestone with plastic deformation features, weakly metamorphosed. |
434 |
Breccia dorata, from Montagnola Senese, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of fine-grained recrystallised limestone (probably weakly metamorphosed) clasts, closely packed, with minimal red calcareous matrix. Pink colour is leached, not present in rims of larger clasts and all the smaller clasts. It has stylolites, stylolitised clast boundaries, and a few sparry calcite-filled cavities. |
411 |
Breccia dorata, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone breccia/conglomerate with pervasive suturing and solution-modification of clast boundaries. |
412 |
Breccia dorata, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone breccia with solution-modified fractures |
680 |
Breccia frutticolosa, from Bourdeau, Savoie, France |
Conglomerate of diverse limestone clasts. Clasts have been burrowed by marine bivalves. Matrix is calcareous sandstone with ferromagnesium silicate grains of volcanic origin. |
419 |
Breccia gialla e nera, from Portovenere, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy |
Black and grey limestone conglomerate, with a yellow ferruginous calcite matrix. |
413 |
Breccia gialla, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone breccia/conglomerate. |
949 |
Breccia Medicea or 'Africano', from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Tectonised polymict breccia-conglomerate of limestone and marble clasts with solution-modified clast contacts. |
945 |
Breccia pavonazza bruna o dal suffragio, locality unknown |
Polymict breccia-conglomerate. Smaller clasts in matrix are realatively rounded and ferruginous reddish-brown, and all clasts are have ferruginous mainly stylolitic clast boundaries Voids are filled with sparry calcite. A few clasts contain bright green, 'fushsite' (chromium-bearing muscovite). |
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. |
431 |
Breccia pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Marble breccia; a heavily stylolitised, metamorphosed polymict limestone conglomerate, probably resedimented. |
953 |
Breccia persichina, perhaps breccia Medicea, from Stazzema or Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared, metamorphosed solution-modified limestone with stylolites, not entirely recrystallised to marble, fossils are still widely evident. |
485 |
breccia rossa Appenninica, from between Biassa and Pegazzano, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy |
Burrowed stylolitised nodular limestone which has been tectonically modified. |
439 |
Breccia rossa di Trapani, rosso di Castellammare, from Castellammare, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Jurassic-Cretaceous burrowed red, nodular micritic pelagic limestone with abundant thin-shelled bivalve (Bositra) debris. Note solution seams. |
943 |
Breccia rossa, locality unknown |
Metamorphosed (tectonised) limestone breccia with calcite/hematite-filled fractures, solution seams and stylolites. |
482 |
Breccia traccagnina di Monte Gargano, from Monte Gargano promontory, Foggia, Puglia, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with limestone matrix. It has stylolitised, solution-modified contacts between clasts. |
481 |
Breccia traccagnina di Vitulano, from Vitulano, Benevento, Campania, Italy |
Polymict predominantly limestone conglomerate. |
402 |
Breccia traccagnina, breccia Capitolina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. |
946 |
Breccia traccagnina, breccia Capitolina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. |
403 |
Breccia traccagnina, brecha da Arrábida, from Siera di Arrábida, Setúbal, Portugal |
Polymict limestone conglomerate |
395 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone and dolomite conglomerate with solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites. |
396 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with solution-modified sutured clast boundaries and stylolites. |
397 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone, and dolomite breccia/conglomerate, heavily fractured with sutured, solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites. |
398 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. |
400 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate; heavily altered clast boundaries |
401 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate - perhaps a debris flow. |
679 |
Breccia verde d'Egitto, Breccia universale, from Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert, Egypt |
Metaconglomerate of metamorphic and igneous clasts (banded tuff, serpentinite, etc) in a sheared chloritised or epidotised matrix. Note that granitic clasts commonly also occcur in this stone, see 969. |
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. |
415 |
Breccia, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. Matrix is a fossiliferous micrite with minor dendritic Mn-oxides. Some clasts have goethitic rims. Note calcite-filled voids and calcite-filled fractures. Red areas are filler/polishing compound. |
209 |
Broccatello di Camerino, from Camerino, Macerata, Marches, Italy |
Cretaceous-Eocene pelagic limestone, probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation of the Apennines. A burrowed pink biomicrite with planktonic forams and calcispheres, cut by a sparry calcite and geopetal sediment-filled synsedimentary void, and by calcite-filled fractures. |
283 |
Broccatello di Casale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous limestone containing large benthic forams, calcareous algae, coral fragments etc, and cut by stylolitized fractures. |
464 |
Broccatello di Malcesine, nembro rosato, from Malcesine, Lake Garda, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Upper Jurassic limestone; a burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains but microbreccia-conglomerate in places. Note the extersitu stylolite development. |
443 |
Broccatello di Maran, from Maran, Verona, Italy |
Rosso ammonitico Jurassic pelagic limestone. It is a heavily stylolitised pebbly fossiliferous micrite, either an intraformational conglomerate or a debris-flow. |
459 |
Broccatello di Milano, from Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with sutured/stylolized grain boundaries, very poorly sorted, matrix largely calcarenite. |
463 |
Broccatello di Olorgie, from Olorgie, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Rosso ammonitico Jurassic nodular pelagic limestone. |
521 |
Broccatello di Sentro, from the Verona area, Veneto, Italy. 'Sentro' is perhaps Centro. |
Brecciated limestone containing scattered yellow euhedral rhombs of calcite, and dendritic manganese oxides. |
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. |
445 |
Broccatello di Torbe, from Torbe, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
A redeposited pelagic limestone of the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
216 |
Broccatellone from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Limestone breccia-conglomerate with a ferruginous matrix. It has extensive post-depositional fracturing and calcite veining. |
437 |
Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Polymict limestone breccia with spar-filled cavities. Note suturing/dissolution at clast boundaries. |
448 |
Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Polymict limestone breccia. |
948 |
Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Tectonised limestone breccia-conglomerate. |
527 |
Calcare compatta di Pisa, from Pisa, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone containing scattered grains of quartz. Dendritic growths of manganese/iron oxides emanate from fractures and form discrete spots, and are particularly well developed on the unsawn reverse of the sample. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound. |