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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
81 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone, partially recrystallised, with abundant stylolites. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
27 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, with spar-filled cavities. Distinct shear-texture visible. |
908 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained recrystallised limestone with stylolites and spar-filled fractures. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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). |
127 |
'Marmo bianco e nero d'Egitto', locality unknown |
Black fine-grained limestone with en echelon veins of white fibrous calcite, and with stylolites. |
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. |
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. |
262 |
Marmo ovara bianca di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Alveolinid limestone with algal grains and small intraclasts. |
263 |
Marmo cenerino di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
A well-sorted bioclastic limestone with micrite matrix. |
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. |
919 |
almost certainly Vytina black, from Vytina, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece |
Fine-grained black limestone with white fragments of rudist bivalves; Cretaceous age. |
920 |
almost certainly Vytina black, from Vytina, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece |
Fine-grained black limestone with white shells of rudist bivalves; Cretaceous age. |
921 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Jurassic limestone; matrix is fossiliferous micrite/microspar with molluscan debris. The large white recrystallised shells are of 'Lithiotis' bivalves. |
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. |
337 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous limestone with a biosparite matrix. Large shells of 'Lithiotis ' bivalves are filled with calcite spar. Stylolites are evident. |
366 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, from Valpantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous limestone. Large shells of 'Lithiotis' bivalve and other skeletal elements are replaced by calcite spar. The matrix is biosparite. Note the stylolites. |
222 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone roseo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous fossiliferous limestone with abundant recrystallised/spar replaced rudist bivalves. |
557 |
Arenaria antica, locality unknown |
Originally a micritic limestone with indeterminate spar-filled ?brachiopods, this is now partly recrystallised. |
390 |
Spanish broccatello, from Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain |
Burrowed fossiliferous limestone with large bivalves.The original calcitic shell layers are preserved in some places, elsewhere, sparry calcite infills voids left by desolution of aragonite shells. |
391 |
Spanish broccatello, from Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain |
Burrowed fossiliferous limestone with large bivalves.The original calcitic shell layers are preserved in some places, elsewhere, sparry calcite infills voids left by desolution of aragonite shells. |
392 |
Spanish broccatello, from Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain |
Burrowed fossiliferous limestone with large bivalves.The original calcitic shell layers are preserved in some places, elsewhere, sparry calcite infills voids left by desolution of aragonite shells. |
393 |
Spanish broccatello, from Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain |
Burrowed fossiliferous limestone with large bivalves.The original calcitic shell layers are preserved in some places, elsewhere, sparry calcite infills voids left by desolution of aragonite shells. |
288 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Miller's Dale, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous coral (Lithostrotion) limestone |
289 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Miller's Dale, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous coral (Lithostrotion) limestone |
281 |
Meandrite di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Recrystallised colonial scleractinian coral with pink micrite and spar-filled voids. |
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. |
227 |
Stellaria, locality unknown; not from Egypt |
Coral limestone. A recrystallised colonial scleractinian (= hexacoral) coral, of Mesozoic or more recent age. |
436 |
Semesanto di Milano, from Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Lower Jurassic limestone. A crinoidal biosparite, the red crinoid debris overgrown with white calcite rims, and with coarse sparry calcite in the interstices. |
285 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Sheldon Moore, Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestone with intraclasts, and with suturing of grain contacts. |
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. |
208 |
Languedoc marble, from Caunes-Minervois, Carcassonne, Aude, France |
Devonian red limestone rich in crinoid debris, with prominent grey-white stromatactis and abundant stylolites. |
487 |
Breccia di Casale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Bioclastic limestone with large benthic foraminifera. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
217 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone pavonazzo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts. |
220 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone rosso, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts. |
221 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone bigio, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
472 |
perhaps Chiampo, from Ponte Salaro, near Rome is doubtful; this is more likely to be from the area of Chiampo, in Vicenza. |
Limestone; a foraminiferal ruddite with abundant nummulites and other benthic forams, algal grains, mollusc fragments and limestone intraclasts. It has extensive solution of grain boundaries, creamy micritic cement containing microfossils. Extensive use has been made of an orange filler. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
922 |
Chiampo perlato, from Chiampo area, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy |
Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone, note solution-modified and stylolized fractures. |
215 |
Lumachella antica, from Mégara, Attica, Greece |
Nummulitic limestone of Middle Eocene age. |
204 |
Rosso di Monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a burrowed biomicrite with tiny bioclasts. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
191 |
Nembro di Monta Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous burrowed peloidal biosparite. |
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. |
469 |
Breccia degli Appennini, from Apennines, Italy |
Matrix-supported bio- and intraclast-rich biomicrite limestone. It is poorly sorted; possibly resedimented in a debris flow. |
563 |
Marmo polveroso di Pistoia, from Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone with abundant planktonic foraminifera. |
470 |
Breccia degli Appennini, from Apennines, Italy |
Bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite limestone. A packstone (grain-supported, the bioclasts in contact). It has fractures and stylolites. |
444 |
Rosso di Rosaro, from Rosaro, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Stylolitised nodular biomicrite; a pelagic limestone of the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
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. |
17 |
Marmo bianco di Fuligno, from Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Burrowed micritic limestone, heavily fractured and stylolitised. |
980 |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy |
Partially silicified limestone, voids and fractures filled with agate. Some black calcareous limestone especially on reverse. Dark brown areas are filler. |
492 |
probably Gialletto di Torri del Benaco, from Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Debris-flow deposit of limestone intraclasts in fossiliferous micritic matrix. Clay-coated stylolites are conspicuous. |
445 |
Broccatello di Torbe, from Torbe, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
A redeposited pelagic limestone of the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
907 |
'Portasanta', locality unknown |
Sheared limestone/marble breccia with extensive stylolite development. |
510 |
Pietra paesina, from Florence, Tuscany, Italy; and most probably from the Valdarno |
Calcareous marl/marly limestone from the Upper Cretaceous Alberese Formation. Calcite-filled microfractures control extent of iron/manganese colouration. Note the prominent stylolites. |
970 |
Pudingo di Sabina, from Sabina, Umbria, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate. Clasts predominantly limestone, but include some silicates including muscovite; a few clasts are pebbles of igneous/metamorphic rocks (granite/gneiss etc.). Matrix is calcarenite with some quartz, coated with yellowish goethite. |
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. |
190 |
Marmo giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Recrystallised limestone or marble, with calcite-filled fractures, and with ferruginous orange stylolites. |
39 |
Giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Italy; but more likely to be from the Verona area, Veneto, Italy |
Micritic limestone |
956 |
Pietra paesina, from Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone with scattered tiny bioclasts, coarser-grained intraclasts, and stylolites. It is heavily fractured, the microfracture-constrained iron-staining giving a 'paesina' effect. Abundant dentritic manganese oxides are concentrated in, or emanate from some intraclasts, stylolites and veins. It is almost certainly from the Cretaceous to Eocene Alberese Formation. |
336 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, mischio di Mizolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite/biosparite with debris of the the lower Jurassic reef-forming 'Lithiotis' bivalve. |
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. |
501 |
Giallo di Pigozzo, from Pigozzo, Val Squaranto; Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed fossiliferous micritic limestone with foraminifera and debris probably of bivalves. |
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. |
237 |
Botticino fiorito, from Botticino, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite with calcareous algae. |
500 |
'Persichino di Romegiano', from Domegiano or Romagnano, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous micritic limestone with debris probably of bivalves. |
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. |
503 |
Palombino di Cesena, from Cesena in Emilia, Forli, Emilia-Romagno, Italy |
Micritic limestone showing faint iron-staining constrained by a system of healed microfractures. |