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
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.
188stone 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.
166stone 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.
407stone 407 Griotte, from the Haute Pyrénées, France Lower Devonian red nodular limestone, clay-rich matrix, with extensive solution seams and stylolites
169stone 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.
950stone 950 Breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Tectonic brecciated limestone breccia, heavily fractured with stylolites and solution-modified clast boundaries.
394stone 394 Breccia di Aleppo, from Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece Polymict limestone conglomerate with solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites.
396stone 396 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate with solution-modified sutured clast boundaries and stylolites.
339stone 339 Alabastro di Palermo, from Palermo, Sicily, Italy Coarse-grained calcite travertine deposit on a bioclastic limestone. Matrix is a calc-rudite-limestone conglomerate dominated by large benthic forams and limestone intraclasts of calcareous algae. Note the stylolites.
441stone 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.
936stone 936 Alabastro antico, locality unknown Limestone breccia. Calcite travertine clasts, and a few gastropod shells, in a micritic (peloidal in places) matrix.
352stone 352 'Alabastro dorato d'Orte', locality unknown Coarse to very coarse nearly transparent granular calcite, perhaps a hydrothermal vein deposit rather than a travertine. Some grey micritic limestone matrix is present which contains white grains probably of algae.
322stone 322 Alabastro a giaccione, locality unknown Compact finely banded travertine composed of coarsely crystalline brown calcite coating a fossiliferous limestone. Note the abundant fractures.
930stone 930 Alabastro fortezzino, probably from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Fine-grained compact travertine with some slender orange bands, hosted in a nummulitic limestone.
302stone 302 Alabastro, cotognino a onde, locality not known. Perhaps from Hatnub, Mallawi, or another location in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Compact banded travertine cut parallel to the banding, composed of medium-grained columnar/granular calcite, with a few scattered aggregates of acicular goethite or manganese oxide crystals. Some of the sparry limestone host rock is present. Grey patches contain clay and other debris. Small pink area is filler.
691stone 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.
180stone 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.
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.
944stone 944 Breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Weakly metamorphosed limestone breccia with stylolitised clast boundaries, and with small cavities filled with sparry calcite.
93stone 93 Campan vert, cipollino verde mandolato, from the Haute Pyrénées (probably Pont de la Taulé), France Weakly metamorphosed Lower Devonian nodular limestone, the white fine-grained calcareous nodules have heavily chloritised rims in a paler green chlorite/calcite groundmass.
94stone 94 Cipollino mandolato, most probably rosé vif des Pyrénées, from the area west of Esplas-de-Sérou, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France Weakly metamorphosed Lower Devonian nodular limestone, somewhat sheared and largely recrystallised; with chlorite coating the nodules.
96stone 96 Cipollino rosso, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey Fine to medium-grained folded impure limestone, now weakly metamorphosed to marble but the abundant debris suggesting it was in part a calcarenite.
278stone 278 Marmo conchigliare rosso di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy Fossiliferous calcareous sandstone with serpulid worm tubes and bivalve debris.
937stone 937 Alabastro antico, locality unknown Compact finely banded calcite travertine, wide paler coloured bands have a more porous texture and contain trapped filler.
374stone 374 Alabastro di Sabina, Alabastro ghiaccione, from Sabina, or from Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy Very pure banded calcite travertine composed of very coarse granular colourless crystals and fine grained white calcite, banding evident in a few places. It is almost certainly a speleothem.
365stone 365 Alabastro di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy; or perhaps travertino di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy Banded travertine, ferruginous bushy growths are the result of cyanobacterial growth in the hot water. Banding and abundant cavities are clearly visible on the sides of the sample.
301stone 301 Alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey Compact banded travertine, brecciated in places, composed of fine- to medium-grained calcite with some orange-brown ferruginous bands. Abundant cavities contain greyish brown wax filler.
303stone 303 Alabastro a occhi, locality unknown Brecciated fine-grained compact banded travertine, with acicular and granular bands of calcite, some dark orange-brown coloured.
371stone 371 Alabastro di Civitavecchia, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy Breccia of travertine clasts, peloids, algal debris and fine-grained ferruginous detritus in a sparite matrix .
330stone 330 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. This appears to be a recrystallised brecciated compact banded travertine, composed of medium and coarse-grained granular calcite. It is coloured red by disseminated hematite.
368stone 368 almost certainly Travertino di Civitavecchia, from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy Calcite travertine deposit, with algal(probably cyanobacterial) laminites. Coloured bands are tinted by hematite (red) and goethite (yellow).
939stone 939 Alabastro di S. Felicita, from Santa Felicita, Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy A very coarse-grained compact banded calcite travertine, of a pale golden yellow colour.
370stone 370 Alabastra di Monte Alcino, from Montalcino, Siena, Tuscany, Italy A reddish brown very coarsely crystalline banded calcite travertine with ferruginous inclusions running parallel or perpendicular to banding.
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.
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.
323stone 323 Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Fairly coarse-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; the slender orange ferruginous bands are often seen in the alabaster of the Nile valley.
929stone 929 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed of coarse-grained calcite, some bands are rich in iron oxides, dendritic growth most evident on the sides of the sample.
306stone 306 'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown Compact finely banded travertine composed of calcite, some bands orange, ferruginous.
359stone 359 Alabastro di Busca, from Busca, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy Banded compact calcite travertine. Note bands of granular white calcite. Specimen has a particularly high polish.
360stone 360 Alabastro di Busca, from Busca, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy Banded compact calcite travertine. Note bands of granular white calcite.
369stone 369 Alabastro di Collepardo, alabastro ghiaccione, from Collepardo, near Frosinone; or from Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy Very pure compact banded travertine composed of parallel prismatic colourless calcite crystals. A speleothem deposit.
388stone 388 Alabastro de'Bagni di S. Filippo, from Bagni San Filippo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy Compact banded calcite travertine; fluoresces yellow-white under longwave uv radiation.
538stone 538 Alabastro di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy Banded yellow calcite, probably a compact banded travertine.
923stone 923 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite heavily tinted red by hematite.
928stone 928 Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Compact travertine composed of fine acicular calcite crystals.
931stone 931 Alabastro antico, locality unknown Compact banded calcite travertine, heavily contaminated with grains of the host limestone.
932stone 932 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Very ferruginous compact banded calcite travertine.
942stone 942 Tartaro di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
318stone 318 Alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey Compact banded travertine composed of coarse acicular to granular calcite. The sides of the specimen show the banding clearly.
304stone 304 Alabastro ghiaccione, from Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of parallel columnar colourless crystals of calcite interbanded with fine grained white calcite.
305stone 305 'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown Compact finely banded travertine composed of calcite, with abundant fractures perpendicular to the banding.
321stone 321 Alabastro a giaccione, locality unknown Compact finely banded travertine composed of calcite, some bands with ferruginous inclusions. Note the extensive fracturing perpendicular to the banding.
332stone 332 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed of finely fibrous calcite almost entirely coloured red by hematite.
314stone 314 Alabastro a rosa, alabastro fiorito, locality unknown Compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite, in some bands as colourless prismatic crystals. It is richly coloured by iron oxides - red hematite and brown goethite, in places clearly bushy growths suggesting the action of cyanobacteria.
315stone 315 Alabastro a rosa, alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey Compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite, in some bands as colourless prismatic crystals. It is richly coloured by iron oxides - red hematite and brown goethite, in places clearly bushy growths suggesting the action of cyanobacteria.
934stone 934 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded calcite travertine coloured by iron oxide, with dendritic growths of manganese oxides.
320stone 320 Alabastro a giaccione, perhaps alabastro di Montalcino from Montalcino, Siena, Tuscany, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of very coarsely crystalline calcite. Ferruginous inclusions run parallel to the banding.
325stone 325 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; pure calcite apart from a few slender orange ferruginous bands.
340stone 340 Alabastro di Mizzole, gioia di Mizzole, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of coarse-grained calcite.
345stone 345 Alabastro bianco di Collepardo, from Collepardo, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy Banded compact travertine composed of exceptionally coarse-grained columnar calcite.
362stone 362 Alabastro di Napoli, from Naples, Campania, Italy; or perhaps alabastro di Busca, from Busca, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy Banded compact coarse-grained travertine, with bands of white granular calcite.
319stone 319 Alabastro sardonico, locality unknown Compact banded travertine composed of coarsely crystalline calcite coloured red by hematite, adjoining or interbanded with colourless very coarsely crystalline calcite.
933stone 933 probably Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. Compact banded travertine composed of fairly coarse-grained calcite, extensively iron-stained and with red ferruginous veins.
350stone 350 Alabastro di Camerino, from Camerino, Ancona, Marches, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of very coarse, transparent, to very fine, translucent calcite.
308stone 308 'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown Compact finely banded calcite travertine. A hot spring deposit with some bands containing dendritic iron oxides, probably the result of cyanobacterial activity.
334stone 334 very probably alabastro di Volterra, from Volterra, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Banded compact travertine composed of very fine fibrous crystals of calcite embedding scattered fragments of a pure white travertine.
347stone 347 Alabastro di Perugia; Perugia, Umbria, Italy, may not be correct. Very compact banded travertine composed of finely acicular/granular calcite crystals. Yellow areas are artificial filler.
348stone 348 Alabastro di Siena; Siena, Tuscany, Italy, may not be correct. Very compact banded travertine composed of finely acicular/granular calcite crystals. Yellow areas are artificial filler.
357stone 357 Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy Very finely banded compact calcite travertine.
361stone 361 Alabastro di Breschia, from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy Compact travertine composed of bands of finely fibrous and fine-grained calcite.
363stone 363 Alabastro di Torrita, perhaps from either Torrita Tiberina, Roma, Lazio, Italy or Torrita di Siena, Siena, Tuscany, Italy Banded compact travertine of very fine fibrous calcite, flesh pink on sides of specimen.
377stone 377 Tartaro di Tivoli, alabastro di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
378stone 378 Tartaro di Tivoli, alabastro di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
379stone 379 Tartaro di Tivoli, alabastro di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
380stone 380 Tartaro di Tivoli, alabastro di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
381stone 381 Tartaro di Tivoli, alabastro di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
382stone 382 Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
383stone 383 Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
384stone 384 Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
385stone 385 Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
386stone 386 Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite.
387stone 387 Alabastro de'Bagni di S. Filippo, from Bagni San Filippo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy Compact banded calcite travertine of very finely fibrous calcite.
924stone 924 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite almost entirely coloured red by hematite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water.
925stone 925 Alabastro ciliegino, locality unknown Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with some bands particularly rich in included red hematite. Light brown areas are wax filler.
311stone 311 Alabastro di Palombara, possibly from Iano di Montaione, Siena, Tuscany, Italy, but more probably Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey Compact finely banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained rather opaque white calcite. Bushy dendritic growths of brown iron oxides result from cyanobacterial activity.
354stone 354 Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy Banded compact travertine, the very fine acicular calcite crystals giving a particularly compact structure. Note white 'fractures' appear to be strings of minute gas inclusions.
355stone 355 Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy Banded compact travertine, composed of very fine acicular calcite crystals. Note white 'fractures' appear to be strings of minute gas inclusions.
356stone 356 Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy Banded compact travertine, composed of very fine acicular calcite crystals. Note white 'fractures' appear to be strings of minute gas inclusions.
333stone 333 Alabastro ciliegino, locality unknown Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite. Iron oxides trapped within the botryoidal structure of the calcite give the distinctive appearance.
327stone 327 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with rich bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water.
326stone 326 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with rich bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly brown goethite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water.
328stone 328 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water.
344stone 344 Alabastro scuro di Collepardo, from Collepardo, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy Banded compact travertine composed of very fine-grained, grading to coarse-grained, columnar calcite.
927stone 927 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria, or perhaps alabastro ciliegino, locality unknown. Compact banded travertine composed of white fine-grained calcite, with coarse-grained areas patchily rich in iron oxides, mainly hematite.
364stone 364 'Alabastro di Sarzana', locality unknown; not thought to be from Sarzana. Banded compact travertine composed of medium-grained granular/prismatic calcite; some bands are orange, ferruginous. Dark brown is filler or polishing compound.
367stone 367 Alabastro di S. Felicita, from Santa Felicita, Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy Compact banded travertine composed of medium to coarse-grained columnar calcite crystals
926stone 926 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Recrystallised compact banded travertine, composed of mainly granular ferruginous calcite.
329stone 329 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. Compact banded travertine now at least partially recrystallised. The dendritic development of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, is most probably the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water.
309stone 309 'Alabastro fiorito', alabastro melleo, locality unknown Compact very finely banded calcite travertine. Some bands have brown ferruginous colouring.
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