Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

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OUMNH number Name and quarry location Geological description
OUMNH number Name and quarry location Geological description
201stone 201 Marmo di Brentónico, from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy Fractured, stylolitised, burrowed nodular limestone. It is fine-grained, and variably bioclast-rich/bioclast-poor, with scattered ammonoids. Patches are rich in dolomite rhombs.
202stone 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.
203stone 203 'Rosso di Terni', from the Apennines, Italy; Terni, Umbria, Italy. Cretaceous-Eocene pink pelagic limestone; probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation of the Apennines. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams, calcispheres and other skeletal debris. An early set of close-spaced healed fractures and stylolites is cut by a much larger scale set of calcite-filled fractures.
204stone 204 Rosso di Monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a burrowed biomicrite with tiny bioclasts.
205stone 205 Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece Triassic tectonite. A sheared marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures
206stone 206 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy Limestone; fossiliferous burrowed micrite/microsparite with red burrow infilling, perhaps part of a hard ground. Note the calcite-filled fractures and solution seams.
207stone 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.
208stone 208 Languedoc marble, from Caunes-Minervois, Carcassonne, Aude, France Devonian red limestone rich in crinoid debris, with prominent grey-white stromatactis and abundant stylolites.
209stone 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.
210stone 210 Marmorato di Como, from Como, Lombardy, Italy Birdseye limestone, probably originally a peloidal micrite. Oncolites, rounded sedimentary structures resulting from cyanobacterial growth, can be seen in places.
211stone 211 Verde di Bagnaia, from Bagnaia, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy; or perhaps ribbon jasper from the Ural Mountains, Russia. Siliceous rock featuring abundant green reduction spots; it may possibly be a metamorphosed burrowed mudstone. The specimen is coated with beeswax.
212stone 212 Colombino roseo dell'Elba, from Punta Pina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy Pink micritic limestone, altered to yellow where it is crossed by two generations of calcite-filled fractures. It has disseminated black manganese oxides and pyrite.
213stone 213 Colombino della Punta Pina, from Punta Pina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated, micritic limestone with extensive calcite-filled fractures.
214stone 214 Marmo pavonazzo dell'Alpi, from the Alps Micaceous ?siltstone (siliceous), with calcite-filled veins.
215stone 215 Lumachella antica, from Mégara, Attica, Greece Nummulitic limestone of Middle Eocene age.
216stone 216 Broccatellone from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Limestone breccia-conglomerate with a ferruginous matrix. It has extensive post-depositional fracturing and calcite veining.
217stone 217 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone pavonazzo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts.
218stone 218 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone bianco, perhaps from Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite/microsparite crowded with recrystallised bivalve debris.
219stone 219 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone nero, locality unknown Limestone; a black biosparite matrix with abundant recrystallised bivalves.
220stone 220 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone rosso, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts.
221stone 221 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone bigio, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts.
222stone 222 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone roseo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey Late Cretaceous fossiliferous limestone with abundant recrystallised/spar replaced rudist bivalves.
223stone 223 Lumachella antica, 'astracane dorato', from Henchir al Kasbat (the ancient Thuburbo Maius), Tunisia Fossiliferous limestone with abundant recrystallised/spar replaced bivalves and gastropods in a cream-coloured micrite and patchily calcarenite matrix.
224stone 224 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite/microsparite with abundant recrystallised brachiopod (probably terebratulid) and bivalve debris.
225stone 225 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. Fossiliferous biosparite with abundant recrystallised molluscs, mainly brachiopod (probably terebratulid) and bivalve debris, other bioclasts, and possible limestone intraclasts. It has stylolites and calcite-filled fractures.
226stone 226 Lumachella rosea, from Kairouan, Tunisia Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant nummulites, subsidiary sponge, mollusc, and serpulid debris. Fractures are calcite-filled.
227stone 227 Stellaria, locality unknown; not from Egypt Coral limestone. A recrystallised colonial scleractinian (= hexacoral) coral, of Mesozoic or more recent age.
228stone 228 Lumachella orientale, from Henchir Kasbat (the ancient Thuburbo Maius), Tunisia Fossiliferous biosparite limestone. A lumachelle of rolled, predominantly bivalve debris, recrystallised in part, and with subsidiary other skeletal debris.
229stone 229 Lumachella orientale, from Henchir Kasbat (the ancient Thuburbo Maius), Tunisia Fossiliferous biosparite limestone. A lumachelle of rolled, predominantly bivalve debris, recrystallized in part, and with subsidiary other skeletal debris.
230stone 230 Lumachella nera, locality unknown Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with articulate brachiopods (pentamerids?, some wholly or partially spar-infilled), solitary corals, and crinoid debris. It is of Upper Palaeozoic age.
231stone 231 Lumachellone antico, locality unknown Limestone; fossiliferous biosparite with large gastropods, perhaps Actaeonellid gastropods.
232stone 232 Lumachella rosea, from Kairouan, Tunisia Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant nummulites, subsidiary sponge, mollusc and serpulid debris.
233stone 233 Most probably Chiampo, from Vicenza or Venezia, Veneto, Italy Fossiliferous microsparite limestone with bivalves and abundant large and small benthic foraminifera. It has limestone intraclasts, calcite-filled veins, and stylolites coloured by red filler or polishing compound.
234stone 234 Lumachella di Menaggio, from Menaggio, Como, Lombardy, Italy, or more likely a lumachella from Verona or Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. Fossiliferous pel-sparite limestone. It has abundant peloids and intraclasts of micritic limestone in a sparry matrix. Some layers are rich in bivalves, others are edgewise breccia together with fragments of laminated 'algal' cyanobacterial micrite.
235stone 235 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Stalavena, Verona, Veneto, Italy A fossiliferous micrite/microsparite limestone with abundant recrystallised, predominantly brachiopod (probably terebratulid) debris.
236stone 236 Lumachella di Lugano, from Lake Lugano, Varese, Lombardy, Italy Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with abundant molluscan debris, peloids and coated grains, and a large ?cephalopod. Stylolites contain red filler/polishing compound.
237stone 237 Botticino fiorito, from Botticino, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite with calcareous algae.
238stone 238 Lumachella di Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous nodular peloidal biomicrite, in places a biopelsparite, with large, spar-replaced gastropods and other molluscs. It has well-developed stylolites.
239stone 239 Lumachella di San Vitale, from Pigozzo, Val Squaranto; Verona, Veneto, Italy Fossiliferous microsparite limestone, the matrix rich in bioclasts. Large, fragmentary bivalves are the reef-forming bivalve Lithiotis. They are recrystallised/replaced by sparry calcite, but original calcite shells survive in places.
240stone 240 Lumachella di Abruzzo, from Scontrone, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy Limestone. A shell bed with abundant gastropods and large oysters. The matrix is grey biosparite crowded with bioclasts, predominantly molluscan, but also some small benthic forams.
241stone 241 Occhiadino di Como, from Como, Lombardy, Italy Limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous microsparite with abundant oncolites, and mollusc, foram and echinoderm debris. It has prominent spar-filled fractures.
242stone 242 Lumachella di Abruzzo, from Scontrone, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy Limestone. A fossiliferous calcarenite with calcite cement, probably of Tertiary or Quaternary age. It contains large calcite oysters and high-spired gastropods with the original aragonite shell preserved.
243stone 243 Lumachella di Domagiano, from 'Domagiano', Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone, with pel-sparite matrix, crowded with recrystallised spar-replaced whole and fragmentary bivalves (perhaps rudists). It shows intraclast suturing and stylolites.
244stone 244 Lumachella di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy Fossiliferous limestone with spar-replaced gastropods, and terebratulid brachiopods. It was probably originally peloidal, with a sparry calcite cement.
245stone 245 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Fossiliferous limestone. The matrix is microspar/micrite; crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopod (probably terebratulid) and bivalve debris, which is commonly recrystallised or replaced by sparry calcite.
246stone 246 Lumachella di Lipari’; locality unknown. Not from the Lipari islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy. Fine-grained limestone crowded with largely spar-replaced bivalve shells and fragments. There are no igneous grains.
247stone 247 probably Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Limestone. Calcareous algal 'reef' with benthic foraminifera and bryozoans. It has solution-modified clay seams/solution seams.
248stone 248 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, lumachella Pernise, from Val Pernise, near Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. A molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves, replaced by sparry calcite. A few gastropods are evident, and it has stylolites.
249stone 249 Belgian red marble, rouge royale, from Namur, Belgium Devonian fine-grained red burrowed limestone with calcite-filled stromatactis. It is rich in bioclasts. Fossils include articulate brachiopods, orthocone nautiloids, and echinoderm debris.
250stone 250 Marmo della Gaetta, from Gaetta, Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy; or more probably from the area north of Verona, Veneto, Italy. Bioclast-rich microsparite limestone with gastropods and bivalves; perhaps originally nodular/intraclastic/conglomeritic, now much brecciated. It has calcite-filled fractures and stylolites.
251stone 251 Travertino di Monte Catini, from Montecatini Terme, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy Limestone, brown ferruginous in places, composed of brecciated travertine, algal fragments and other bioclasts. Cavities are mostly filled with sparry calcite.
252stone 252 Verdesino della Giazza, from Giazza, Verona, Veneto, Italy Fine-grained bioturbated limestone crowded with bioclasts, mostly thin-shelled bivalves.
253stone 253 'Lumachella di Fuligno', almost certainly not from Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy Fossiliferous biocalcarenite limestone with abundant recrystallised scleractinian coral, molluscan and other grains. Grain contacts are pervasively sutured. Note also stylolites and spar-filled fractures.
254stone 254 Lumachella di Vialeta, from Vialeta, Verona, Veneto, Italy Synsedimentary breccia of fossiliferous bioclast-rich microsparite limestone; the matrix is intraclast-rich with spar cement.
255stone 255 Moregio di S.Ambrogio, from 'Sant'Ambrogio', Vicenza, Veneto, Italy - most likely the Chiampo area, Vicenza. Biosparite limestone with abundant skeletal debris of larger benthic forams (Nummulites, Assilina, Alveolina), small benthic forams, calcareous algae, echinoderms, and bryozoans. Note the pervasive incipient stylolites. It is probably of Middle Eocene age.
256stone 256 Astracane di Verona, lumchella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. Molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves which are replaced by sparry calcite. It contains a few gastropods and has stylolites.
257stone 257 Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Limestone. The matrix is fine-grained microspar crowded with bioclasts of benthic forams, molluscs, bryozoans, echinoderms, calcareous algae etc. It contains abundant silicate grains, as well as larger fossils and calcareous algae.
258stone 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).
259stone 259 Marmo ovara bigio di Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with abundant small nummulites. Also present are diverse bethic forams, algal and molluscan grains.
260stone 260 Marmo schisto bianco di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. A fossiliferous biosparite with abundant benthic forams (Quinqueloculina, Alveolina), algae, and sclerosponge. It is probably Eocene.
261stone 261 Marmo schisto bigio di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy Foraminiferal limestone (Alveolina?), with calcite-filled voids in the forams.
262stone 262 Marmo ovara bianca di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy Alveolinid limestone with algal grains and small intraclasts.
263stone 263 Marmo cenerino di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy A well-sorted bioclastic limestone with micrite matrix.
264stone 264 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. A molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves, replaced by sparry calcite, and with a few scarce gastropods. Some stylolites are evident.
265stone 265 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, lumachella Pernise, from Val Pernise; near Grezzana, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. A molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves, replaced by sparry calcite. A few gastropods are also present. A stylolite can be seen.
266stone 266 Lumachella rossa di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. The coarse-grained part of this bio-pel sparite has coated bioclasts (forams, shell fragments, algal fragments) with some molluscan debris. The fine-grained part is a fossiliferous micrite with large bioclasts of the above, together with whole and fragmentary spar-replaced bivalves. Note the colour banding normal to bedding, and the spar-filled fractures.
267stone 267 Lumachella di San Vitale, from Lugo di Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite with debris of the Lower Jurassic reef-forming bivalves ‘Lithiotis’, probably Lithiotis problematica, as well as other bivalves, and gastropods.
268stone 268 Marmo castagne petrificate di Milano, from Milan, Lombardy, Italy Mesozoic fossiliferous burrowed micritic limestone crowded with terebratulid brachiopods, of which some are spar-infilled. It has prominent stylolites.
269stone 269 Lumachella di Abruzzo, from Scontrone, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy Tertiary or Quaternary fossiliferous calcarenite with oyster, heterodont bivalves, gastropods, echinoid spines and small benthic forams.
270stone 270 Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Mesozoic fossiliferous burrowed micritic limestone with abundant bioclasts: whole and fragmentary terebratulid brachiopods, crinoid debris, small benthic forams, and calcareous algae. It has spar-filled fractures and stylolites.
271stone 271 Lumachella di Milano, from Milan, Lombardy, Italy Burrowed fossiliferous micritic limestone with abundant molluscan debris; it is heavily fractured, and fractures are filled with sparry calcite.
272stone 272 Lumachella del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous pelsparite with echinoderm debris and algal nodules, and with incipient stylolites.
273stone 273 Lumachella di San Vitale, from San Vitale di Roverè, Verona, Veneto, Italy Fossiliferous limestone with large fragments of 'Lithiotis' bivalve. Some contain original calcite microstructure, others are replaced by recrystallised calcite. It has many calcite-filled stylolites and fractures.
274stone 274 Rosso di Castelletto di Brenzone, from Castelletto di Brenzone, Verona, Veneto, Italy Pelagic limestone from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. Fossiliferous micrite crowded with bioclastic debris including juvenile and adult ammonites. The aptychi of ammonites are conspicuous. Note the calcite-filled stylolites.
275stone 275 Lumachella di Canova, possibly from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy; or Pietra Rosone di Trapani from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Limestone containing algal nodules with abundant benthic forams in the matrix. The nodules have bryozoan/molluscan nuclei, and have extensive stylolitization and suturing of clast contacts.
276stone 276 Lumachella di Frascati, from Frascati, Rome, Lazio, Italy Algal (?or cyanobacterial) limestone with sparse benthic forams and tubules probably of girvanellid algae. It has calcite-lined and sparry calcite-filled voids.
277stone 277 Marmo conchigliare delle Alpi, from the Alps A calcarenite, probably of Tertiary age, with molluscan, algal, polychaete and other bioclasts, and common small benthic forams.
278stone 278 Marmo conchigliare rosso di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy Fossiliferous calcareous sandstone with serpulid worm tubes and bivalve debris.
279stone 279 Lumachella di Valpolicella, perhaps giallo reale, from Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy Biosparite limestone with abundant large benthic forams, algal nodules and grains, and molluscan debris.
280stone 280 Stellaria bianca di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Fossil wood with borings of the shipworms (teredinid bivalves), borings filled with white fossiliferous micritic limestone or spar. Alveoliria forams are present in sediment fills.
281stone 281 Meandrite di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Recrystallised colonial scleractinian coral with pink micrite and spar-filled voids.
282stone 282 Stellaria rossa di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy Recrystallised colonial scleractinian coral with spar-filled voids. Interstices between coralites are filled with yellow bioclastic limestone.
283stone 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.
284stone 284 Derbyshire fossil marble, from Monyash, Derbyshire, England; perhaps Ricklow quarry. Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestone with spar cement cut by styoltized calcite-filled fractures.
285stone 285 Derbyshire fossil marble, from Sheldon Moore, Derbyshire, England Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestone with intraclasts, and with suturing of grain contacts.
286stone 286 Derbyshire fossil marble, from One Ash Grange, near Monyash, Derbyshire, England; perhaps from the nearby Brecks or Bricks quarry. Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous bioturbated fossiliferous micrite with bryozoan algae, brachiopods and other skeletal debris. It is extensively stylolitised; the stylolites having sparry hematitic fills.
287stone 287 Derbyshire fossil marble, from Derbyshire, England Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous burrowed fossiliferous micrite crowded with skeletal debris: bryozoans, crinoids, benthic forminifera etc.
288stone 288 Derbyshire fossil marble, from Miller's Dale, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, England Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous coral (Lithostrotion) limestone
289stone 289 Derbyshire fossil marble, from Miller's Dale, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, England Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous coral (Lithostrotion) limestone
290stone 290 Lumachella del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy Jurassic fossiliferous calcarenite with punctate brachiopods (Terebratulids) and ammonites.
291stone 291 A hybrid of mischio scuro di Lugo/lumachella di San Vitale and astracane di Verona, from Lugo di Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite parts of the specimen rich in bivalve fragments, and other parts containing elongate spar-filled sections of the the lower Jurassic 'Lithiotis' bivalve. It is crossed by a thick calcite-filled vein.
292stone 292 Lumachella rossa di Milano, from Milan, Lombardy, Italy Limestone. Burrowed fossiliferous micrite crowded with molluscan and other skeletal debris. It is possibly part of a hard ground.
293stone 293 Lumachella di Abruzzo, from Scontrone, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy Fossiliferous conglomerate with quartz-rich matrix and clasts of limestone, marble, calc-algae etc. Flattened out bivalves contain original aragonite. It is post-Cretaceous in age. Green/dark yellow brown areas are filler.
294stone 294 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite, but note slender orange ferruginous bands often seen in this stone.
295stone 295 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite. Dark yellow-brown wax filler covers a very narrow ferruginous orange-brown band.
296stone 296 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Very coarse-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite.
297stone 297 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Coarse-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite.
298stone 298 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Medium-grained compact banded travertine, very pure and almost entirely composed of calcite.
299stone 299 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; note slender orange ferruginous bands often seen in this stone. Grey band at one corner is a filler.
300stone 300 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Coarse-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; note slender orange ferruginous bands often seen in this stone.
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