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
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.
133stone 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.
135stone 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.
82stone 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.
87stone 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.
78stone 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.
193stone 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.
81stone 81 Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece Fine-grained compact limestone, partially recrystallised, with abundant stylolites.
79stone 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.
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.
20stone 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.
21stone 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.
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.
24stone 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.
27stone 27 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, with spar-filled cavities. Distinct shear-texture visible.
908stone 908 Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece Fine-grained recrystallised limestone with stylolites and spar-filled fractures.
25stone 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.
26stone 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.
29stone 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.
40stone 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.
140stone 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.
131stone 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).
127stone 127 'Marmo bianco e nero d'Egitto', locality unknown Black fine-grained limestone with en echelon veins of white fibrous calcite, and with stylolites.
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.
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.
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.
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.
919stone 919 almost certainly Vytina black, from Vytina, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece Fine-grained black limestone with white fragments of rudist bivalves; Cretaceous age.
920stone 920 almost certainly Vytina black, from Vytina, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece Fine-grained black limestone with white shells of rudist bivalves; Cretaceous age.
921stone 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.
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.
337stone 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.
366stone 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.
222stone 222 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone roseo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey Late Cretaceous fossiliferous limestone with abundant recrystallised/spar replaced rudist bivalves.
557stone 557 Arenaria antica, locality unknown Originally a micritic limestone with indeterminate spar-filled ?brachiopods, this is now partly recrystallised.
390stone 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.
391stone 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.
392stone 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.
393stone 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.
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
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.
227stone 227 Stellaria, locality unknown; not from Egypt Coral limestone. A recrystallised colonial scleractinian (= hexacoral) coral, of Mesozoic or more recent age.
436stone 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.
285stone 285 Derbyshire fossil marble, from Sheldon Moore, Derbyshire, England Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestone with intraclasts, and with suturing of grain contacts.
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.
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.
487stone 487 Breccia di Casale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy Bioclastic limestone with large benthic foraminifera.
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.
158stone 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.
150stone 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.
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.
217stone 217 Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone pavonazzo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
447stone 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.
195stone 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.
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.
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.
472stone 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.
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.
200stone 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.
155stone 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.
922stone 922 Chiampo perlato, from Chiampo area, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone, note solution-modified and stylolized fractures.
215stone 215 Lumachella antica, from Mégara, Attica, Greece Nummulitic limestone of Middle Eocene age.
204stone 204 Rosso di Monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a burrowed biomicrite with tiny bioclasts.
199stone 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.
192stone 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.
442stone 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.
191stone 191 Nembro di Monta Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous burrowed peloidal biosparite.
85stone 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.
469stone 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.
563stone 563 Marmo polveroso di Pistoia, from Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy Micritic limestone with abundant planktonic foraminifera.
470stone 470 Breccia degli Appennini, from Apennines, Italy Bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite limestone. A packstone (grain-supported, the bioclasts in contact). It has fractures and stylolites.
444stone 444 Rosso di Rosaro, from Rosaro, Verona, Veneto, Italy Stylolitised nodular biomicrite; a pelagic limestone of the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation.
171stone 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.
17stone 17 Marmo bianco di Fuligno, from Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy Burrowed micritic limestone, heavily fractured and stylolitised.
980stone 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.
492stone 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.
445stone 445 Broccatello di Torbe, from Torbe, Verona, Veneto, Italy A redeposited pelagic limestone of the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation.
907stone 907 'Portasanta', locality unknown Sheared limestone/marble breccia with extensive stylolite development.
510stone 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.
970stone 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.
953stone 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.
190stone 190 Marmo giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Lombardy, Italy Recrystallised limestone or marble, with calcite-filled fractures, and with ferruginous orange stylolites.
39stone 39 Giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Italy; but more likely to be from the Verona area, Veneto, Italy Micritic limestone
956stone 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.
336stone 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.
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.
501stone 501 Giallo di Pigozzo, from Pigozzo, Val Squaranto; Verona, Veneto, Italy Burrowed fossiliferous micritic limestone with foraminifera and debris probably of bivalves.
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.
237stone 237 Botticino fiorito, from Botticino, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite with calcareous algae.
500stone 500 'Persichino di Romegiano', from Domegiano or Romagnano, Verona, Veneto, Italy Fossiliferous micritic limestone with debris probably of bivalves.
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.
503stone 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.
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