138 |
Giallo tigrato, from Monte Calvo, Rieti, Lazio, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite with spar-filled stylolites, fractures and cavities, and with extensive development of dendritic black iron/manganese oxides. |
130 |
Bianco e nero di Monte Pulciano, possibly from Montepulciano, Siena, Tuscany, Italy (see notes) |
Black limestone with white calcite-filled fractures and abundant stylolites. Stylolites and thin fractures contain yellow siderite. |
129 |
Bianco e nero di Portoferraio, from Portoferraio, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Black limestone breccia with white calcite-filled veins and fractures, some en echelon and fibrous in places. Abundant stylolites and thin fractures are filled with yellow siderite. |
110 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted limestone clasts, with stylolites and calcite-filled fractures |
428 |
Mandolato di Lubiara, nembro rosato, from Lubiara, Caprino Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Upper Jurassic or Cretaceous burrowed nodular biomicrite limestone crowded with skeletal grains. Note the extersitu stylolite development. |
485 |
breccia rossa Appenninica, from between Biassa and Pegazzano, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy |
Burrowed stylolitised nodular limestone which has been tectonically modified. |
136 |
most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Very poorly sorted breccia of black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone in a white calcareous matrix; most of the stone is one larger clast which is crossed with white and ferruginous yellow veins. Note the yellow stylolites and stylolitic clast boundary. |
132 |
most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Finely brecciated weakly metamorphosed fine-grained limestone with veins of saccharoidal to fibrous calcite; some veins and stylolites coloured yellow by included goethite. |
134 |
Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy |
Breccia of black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, in a matrix of granular calcite coloured yellow by included goethite. Yellow stylolites are also prominent. |
161 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Gibellina Vecchia, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Recrystallised limestone; originally probably a noular micrite/microspar, voids filled by sparry calcite. Buff-coloured area are filler. |
48 |
Marmo giallo di Mizolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Sparry yellow limestone with scattered rhombohedral crystals of calcite, and with intraclasts of white fine-grained limestone. Dark coloured speckling is pyrite and wax filler. |
775 |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Cassaro, probably from Monte Cassero, Castronovo di Sicilia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
A heavily fractured silicified limestone, yellow jaspery areas containing a few mollusc shells. Fractures are filled with colourless crystalline quartz. Reddish-brown veins contain filler. |
781 |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Moardo, from Monte Moardo, Altofonte, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Silicified polymict limestone breccia, of fractured clasts with a drusy overgrowth of white quartz crystals in turn coated with agate. Matrix is orange iron-stained or white granular quartz. Note relic microfauna. |
758 |
Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccio conglomerate of siliceous jaspery clasts in a groundmass of partially silicified dolomitic limestone, cavities infilled with colourless to grey agate. |
777 |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Coltobarro, perhaps diaspro di Caltavutura, from Coltabarro is perhaps Caltavutura, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Green silicified ?limestone, fracture and cavity boundaries altered to hematite, lined with calcite crystals and infilled with colourless crystalline quartz. |
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. |
86 |
Cipollino mandolato, griotte, from Haute Pyrénées, France; and probably from the Campan valley. |
Lower Devonian tectonised and sheared red nodular limestone, with stylolites and white calcite-filled veins. |
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. |
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. |
13 |
Palombino antico, possibly from the Apennines, Italy. |
Heavily recrystallised intraclastic limestone. The brown specks are polishing compound. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
290 |
Lumachella del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy |
Jurassic fossiliferous calcarenite with punctate brachiopods (Terebratulids) and ammonites. |
341 |
marmo rosa dell' Alcenago, from Alsenaso, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Not ‘alabaster’. A fine-grained calcarenite limestone. |
518 |
Rosso di Fuligno, from Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Calcarenite, with no obvious biogenic grains. Patchy areas of pyrite, and scattered dendrites of manganese/iron oxides are present. |
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. |
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. |
194 |
Marmo della Gaetta, from Gaetta, Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Heavily recrystallised and fractured ?calcarenite, with disseminated pyrite on fractures. |
185 |
Ceppo scuro del lago di Como, from Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Fine grained calcarenite with some primary lamination and signs of soft sediment deformation. |
197 |
Rosso del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy |
Ferruginous micaceous calcarenite. |
615 |
Serpentina delle Alpi, from the Alps (not confirmed) |
A heavily altered calcarenite. |
80 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Partially recrystallised fine-grained compact limestone. Red and yellow iron oxides are concentrated in abundant stylolites, giving a reticulated (net-like) appearance. |
65 |
Duke's red marble, from Newhaven, Derbyshire, England |
Recrystallised limestone of Lower Carboniferous age, containing abundant hematitic (and occasional limonitic) capillary inclusions dispersed in colourless calcite. |
906 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Partially recrystallised bioclastic limestone with crinoid and other debris, stylolites, and spar-filled fractures. |
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. |
437 |
Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Polymict limestone breccia with spar-filled cavities. Note suturing/dissolution at clast boundaries. |
461 |
probably diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy; but may be breccia d'Arzo, from Ticino, Switzerland. |
Polymict limestone breccia with variable amounts of orange iron-staining of micritic matrix. |
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. |
272 |
Lumachella del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous pelsparite with echinoderm debris and algal nodules, and with incipient stylolites. |
181 |
Nembro di San Giorgio, from Verona, Veneto, Italy; but San Giorgio is doubtful. |
Peloidal/intraclastic limestone with fine grained micrite/microspar matrix, and with pervasive solution-seams. |
15 |
Marmo di Segni, from Segni, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Sparsely peloidal/intraclastic fine-grained limestone (micrite or microspar) with calcite-filled vugs. The top surface shows the fenestral fabric of a birds-eye limestone. |
164 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Bisaquino, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Slumped green pelagic limestone with perhaps submarine cement infills of neptunian dykes. Note stylolites. Less fractures than the similar specimen no.171. |
187 |
Cottanello, from Cottanello, Rieti, Lazio, Italy |
Cretaceous-Eocene pelagic limestone. A brecciated biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres. Calcite-filled fractures and voids are cut by late stage red clay-filled stylolites. |
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. |
55 |
Marmo carnagione, marmo cannellino chiaro, probably from the Umbria or Marches regions of the Apennines, Italy |
Pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene), mottled grey with a rich fauna of foraminifera and other plankton. |
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. |
493 |
Probably mandolato di Grezzana, nembro rosato; from Grezzana, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Pelagic limestone. A burrowed nodular fossiliferous micritic limestone with stylolites and solution seams, most probably of Upper Jurassic age, from the upper part of the Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
499 |
Rosso di Mizzole, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed nodular fossiliferous micritic pelagic limestone with calcite/clay-lined stylolites and solution seams. It is from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
59 |
Rossino degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy. |
Pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams, calcispheres, and other skeletal debris. A set of close-spaced healed fractures constrain the pink coloration, giving the effect of a pietra paesina. Stylolites are also present. |
56 |
Marmo carnagione, marmo cannellino scuro, probably from the Umbria or Marches regions of the Apennines, Italy |
Pelagic limestone from the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams, calcispheres and other skeletal debris. It has calcite filled structures and stylolites, and pink coloration constrained by a slender calcite-cemented fracture ('paesina' effect). |
60 |
Marmo carnagione di Camerino; Camerino, Macerata, Marches, Italy may be the correct locality. |
A pink pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous-Eocene). It is a bioturbated biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres with some echinoderm and molluscan debris. |
68 |
‘Marmo rosso di Taormina’; Taormina in Sicily is very doubtful. Possibly from the Apennines, Italy. |
Pink pelagic limestone, most probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Tertiary). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres. |
57 |
Palombino rosso di Ancona, most probably from the area west of Ancona, in the eastern Apennines, Italy. |
Pelagic limestone from the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant tiny planktonic forams and calcispheres. Sparse slender calcite-filled fractures constrain the pink diagenetic colouring banding, analogous to the effect seen in pietra paesina. |
58 |
Marmo carnagione di Perugia, perhaps from Monte Malbe, near Corciano, Perugia, Umbria, Italy. |
Pelagic limestone from the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams, calcispheres, and other small bioclasts. It is crossed by slender healed fractures, and stylolites. |
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. |
424 |
Oolite bigia di Brescia, from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Oolitic limestone; oosparite with abundant crinoid debris. |
423 |
Oolite bianca e gialla di Monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, and most probably from Punta San Vigilio, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Oolitic limestone; oosparite with extensive yellow limonite in the matrix and cortex of the ooliths. Brown is filler/polishing compound. |
498 |
Marmo marrone di Sestino, from Sestino, Milan, Lombardy, Italy; or from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Most probably a resedimented nodular limestone with extensive solution seams and stylolites. |
463 |
Broccatello di Olorgie, from Olorgie, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Rosso ammonitico Jurassic nodular pelagic limestone. |
465 |
rosso di Grezzana, rosso Verona, from Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Nodular pelagic limestone from the Jurassic rosso ammonitico formation. |
183 |
Marmo rosso di sant'Eligio, from Sant'Eligio, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Nodular Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone, the colour leached along fractures and stylolites, which are spar-filled in places. Contains ammonites and a few patchy areas rich in other fossil debris. |
466 |
Breccia del Largo di Garda, from Lake Garda, Lombardy, Italy |
Rosso ammonitico Middle-Upper Jurassic nodular pelagic limestone. |
497 |
Rosso Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico formation. A red nodular, micritic limestone with pervasive clay-coated solution seams. |
457 |
Griotte, from the Haute Pyrénées, France |
Devonian hematite-rich fine-grained nodular limestone with extensive stylolite development. White areas are calcite spar-filled goniatites |
186 |
Rosso di Caprino Veronese, from Caprino Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone, probably of Cretaceous-Tertiary age; a burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains. Note the extersitu stylolite development. |
50 |
Mandolà di monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Nodular/burrowed bioclast-rich microsparite limestone with stylolites. |
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. |
512 |
Argilla antica, locality unknown |
Most probably a calcareous mudstone, it contains planktonic forams. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
198 |
Occhiadina di Bergamo, from Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy |
Birds-eye limestone; probably originally a peloidal micrite. |
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. |
165 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Castronuovo di Sicilia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone, perhaps resedimented; micrite/microsparite crowded with tiny bio/intraclasts and showing traces of grading in places. Note extensive solution seams, stylolites and calcite-filled fractures. |
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. |
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. |
218 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone bianco, perhaps from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite/microsparite crowded with recrystallised bivalve debris. |
536 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, tigrato di Trapani, from Custonaci, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Micritic or microsparite limestone containing a mass of Teredo or similar wood-boring bivalves; no evidence of the wood itself remeins. |
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. |
548 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Not Gypsum. A Lower Jurassic limestone; matrix is fossiliferous micrite/microspar with molluscan debris. The large white intraclasts are heavily recrystallised shells of 'Lithiotis' bivalves. It has abundant stylolites. |
537 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, pietra topografica di Taormina, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Micritic limestone or marl with diagenetic colouring. Veins and fractures are filled with calcite. |
507 |
Pietra paesina, from Florence, Tuscany, Italy; and most probably from Valdarno |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation, with red hematitic specks and stylolites. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining. Some dendritic Mn oxides emanate from the fractures. |
522 |
Pietra felce dell'Elba, pietra paesina, from the island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl showing minor fracture constrained iron-staining giving faint paesina effect. It has abundant areas of dendritic manganese oxides. |
523 |
Pietra paesina, from Valdarno, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation, showing minor fracture constrained iron-staining, and areas of dendritic manganese oxides. |
511 |
Alberese limestone, from Florence, Tuscany, Italy; and most probably from Valdarno |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Upper Cretaceous Alberese Formation. Fractures are calcite-filled. |
508 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous-Eocene Alberese Formation. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining. Some dendritic manganese oxides emanate from the fractures. |
528 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous-Eocene Alberese Formation. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining, giving the 'paesina' effect. Minor dendritic manganese oxides emanate from the fractures. |
529 |
Pietra paesina, from Valdarno, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining. Some dendritic Mn oxides emanate from the fractures. |
530 |
Pietra paesina, from Valdarno, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining. Some dendritic Mn oxides emanate from the fractures. |
532 |
Pietra paesina, from Valdarno, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation. It is heavily iron-stained, the coloration constrained by abundant calcite-filled microfractures. Manganese oxide dendrite are also abundant. |
524 |
landscape marble, alberese di Ponte a Rignano, from Ponte a Rignano, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation, showing well-developed dendrites of manganese oxides. |
533 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous-Eocene Alberese Formation. Liesegang rings of iron-staining colour the specimen. |
534 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous-Eocene Alberese Formation. Brown ferruginous calcite or siderite-filled veins cut the specimen and there is some pink coloration constrained by calcite-filled microfractures giving a faint 'paesina' effect. |
531 |
Pietra paesina, from Valdarno, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl from the Cretaceous Alberese Formation. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining. It is cut by a large calcite-filled vein. |
519 |
Pietra paesina, from the province of Naples, Campania, Italy |
Micritic limestone or calcareous marl. Calcite-filled microfractures control iron-staining which together with Liesegang rings of colour, gives the 'paesina' effect. Some dendritic manganese oxides are evident. |
520 |
Giallo di Mizzolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Micritic limestone with abundant yellow rhombic microcrystals of calcite. It has spar-filled fractures and scattered dendritic manganese oxides. |