84 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Breccia of poorly-sorted fine-grained pink and cream-coloured limestone clasts in a dark red hematite-bearing micritic matrix. The limestone clasts have a few bioclasts and stylolites. Late stage white calcite-filled fractures cross the specimen. |
72 |
Ashford black marble, Derbyshire black marble, from Arrock mine or from quarries on Sheldon Moor, near Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England |
Bituminous fine-grained limestone of Carboniferous age. |
252 |
Verdesino della Giazza, from Giazza, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fine-grained bioturbated limestone crowded with bioclasts, mostly thin-shelled bivalves. |
47 |
Marmo giallo di Torri del Benaco, giallo di Verona, Verona yellow, from Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fine-grained fossiliferous bioclast-rich limestone, burrowed, and showing prominent stylolites. |
168 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Fine-grained red limestone with synsedimentary slump folds. |
395 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone and dolomite conglomerate with solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites. |
397 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone, and dolomite breccia/conglomerate, heavily fractured with sutured, solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites. |
834 |
perhaps africano, from Locality unknown; if africano, then from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
A metamorphosed breccia of dark dolomitic? limestone containing bioclasts such as forams, echinoderm spines and perhaps crinoid ossicles. There are also scattered pyrite crystals and some reddish intraclasts. The matrix is coarsely crystalline pink calcite. There is some chlorite development around clasts. Note the iron-stained calcite-filled fracture. |
468 |
Breccia degli Appennini, from Apennines, Italy |
Limestone. A debris-flow deposit of bio- and intraclast-rich biomicrite. Stylolites and manganese oxide dendrites are present. |
496 |
Breccia degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy |
Debris flow; containing poorly sorted matrix-supported white limestone and other intraclasts in a pink limestone matrix. Sample has calcite-filled fractures. |
951 |
Breccia bigia, locality unknown |
Well-sorted polymict limestone conglomerate. |
443 |
Broccatello di Maran, from Maran, Verona, Italy |
Rosso ammonitico Jurassic pelagic limestone. It is a heavily stylolitised pebbly fossiliferous micrite, either an intraformational conglomerate or a debris-flow. |
482 |
Breccia traccagnina di Monte Gargano, from Monte Gargano promontory, Foggia, Puglia, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with limestone matrix. It has stylolitised, solution-modified contacts between clasts. |
952 |
Breccia di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared polymict limestone conglomerate. The shearing may have been synsedimentary: Solution seams and stylolites are pervasive. Perhaps a sheared debris flow. |
696 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Calcarenite-polymict limestone conglomerate with clear spar matrix. Some darker grains are ?volcanic??, some is dendritic Mn; but also some is brown filler. |
697 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate. Clasts are predominantly limestone, but some are dolomitic and some siliceous. The matrix is calcarenite. Some brown is goethite, but some is filler/polishing compound. |
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. |
459 |
Broccatello di Milano, from Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with sutured/stylolized grain boundaries, very poorly sorted, matrix largely calcarenite. |
410 |
Breccia di Casteldaccia, from Calvario, near Casteldaccia, Palermo, Sicily |
Polymict limestone conglomerate with pervasive sutured solution-modified clast boundaries. |
694 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate of predominantly limestone pebbles, with abundant green silicate grains in matrix. Green silicate grains are subhedral-euhedral crystals Well-rounded clasts have heavily altered rims. Matrix is white micrite/microcrystalline calcite. Note brown is filler. |
693 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate with extensively fractured clasts. These are predominantly limestone; a few are red in colour. Some show 'paesination' - microfracture constrained patterns of ironstaining like pietra paesina, and these also have a rich microfauna. The matrix is calcarenite. |
401 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate - perhaps a debris flow. |
399 |
Breccia corallina giallastra from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey or breccia Godoy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. Clast boundaries and contacts sutured. Note stylolites and extensive calcite-filled fractures. |
408 |
Breccia della Villa Casali, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. Note complex sutured solution-modified clast contacts. Contains shell fragments among clasts. |
695 |
Breccia di Perugia, from Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate with predominantly limestone clasts. Note sutured/styloliitised clast boundaries. Common larger benthic forams, scarcer calcareous algae. Creamy-yellow micritic matrix with microfossils. |
684 |
Breccia delle Alpi, possibly from the Apuan Alps, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate; most clasts are silicified red limestone and rock crystal, a small proportion are calcareous or dolomitic. It is possibly from the Triassic Verrucano Formation. |
682 |
Pudingo antico, locality unknown |
Polymict conglomerate with clasts of quartz, chert, silicified limestone, and dolomitic limestone. The matrix is calcareous. |
689 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Polymict conglomerate with clasts of quartz, chert and silicified limestone. |
425 |
Breccia di Bologna, from Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate with microspar matrix. Clasts are predominantly of limestone; some are a jasper-like pseudobreccia in appearance. |
415 |
Breccia, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. Matrix is a fossiliferous micrite with minor dendritic Mn-oxides. Some clasts have goethitic rims. Note calcite-filled voids and calcite-filled fractures. Red areas are filler/polishing compound. |
427 |
Breccia di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy |
Polymict limestone conglomerate, clasts mainly of pink or creamy white pelagic limestone, some rimmed with dendritic manganese oxides. It also contains clasts of coarsely crystalline white calcite. |
400 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate; heavily altered clast boundaries |
692 |
Breccia di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate of diverse limestones and minor chert/chalcedony clasts, fairly well sorted and elongate with some alignment. Matrix is extensively spotted with Fe/Mn, with dendrites around rims of some clasts. |
398 |
Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. |
402 |
Breccia traccagnina, breccia Capitolina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. |
403 |
Breccia traccagnina, brecha da Arrábida, from Siera di Arrábida, Setúbal, Portugal |
Polymict limestone conglomerate |
481 |
Breccia traccagnina di Vitulano, from Vitulano, Benevento, Campania, Italy |
Polymict predominantly limestone conglomerate. |
946 |
Breccia traccagnina, breccia Capitolina, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone conglomerate. |
454 |
Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Poorly sorted limestone conglomerate with extensive styolitic suturing of clast boundaries. The matrix is micritic with abundant forams. Yellow areas are filler. |
453 |
Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Poorly sorted limestone conglomerate with extensive styolitic suturing of clast boundaries. The matrix is micritic with less forams than no. 454. It has some spar-cemented intraclasts and a few dark grey clasts. Some dendritic manganese oxides are evident on the sides of the specimen. |
486 |
Breccia di Pistoja, from Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy |
Fractured, solution-modified, polymict limestone conglomerate. The micritic matrix contains large benthic forams. The sample has calcite-filled fractures and some dendritic pyrolusite in both clasts and matrix . |
426 |
Breccia di Arbe, breccia a semesanto di Dalmazia, from Island of Rab, Primorje-Gorski, Croatia |
Polymict conglomerate of limestone clasts. |
449 |
Breccia di Brianza, from the area of Brianza , Lombardy, Italy |
Fine-grained limestone conglomerate. Clasts include ooliths and various beige, cream and white limestones, in a sparry calcite matrix. |
414 |
Occhio di pernice, locality unknown |
Limestone conglomerate. Clasts are in part intraclast-rich; this may be debris flow material. Note extensive stylolites and calcite-filled fractures |
419 |
Breccia gialla e nera, from Portovenere, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy |
Black and grey limestone conglomerate, with a yellow ferruginous calcite matrix. |
904 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone, partially recrystallised, with red iron oxides concentrated in abundant stylolites giving a characteristic reticulated appearance often seen in this stone. |
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. |
559 |
Arenaria antica, locality unknown |
Coarse-grained biocalcarenite, with algal, foram, and molluscan grains dominant. |
178 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
A fractured Rosso ammonitico red limestone with prominent stromatactis cavities filled with grey and white calcite. It has stylolites and white calcite-filled veins. |
422 |
Oolite bianca di Monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, and most probably from Punta San Vigilio, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Oolitic limestone; oosparite with calcite-filled fractures. |
375 |
Derbyshire 'alabaster', Poole's Cavern 'alabaster', from Poole's Cavern, near Buxton, Derbyshire, England |
Speleothem calcite with irregular aggregates of metallic grey galena crystals cementing brecciated Carboniferous Limestone. The limestone contains abundant crinoids, bryozoa and other bioclasts. |
561 |
Lavagna di Cesena, from Cesena in Emilia, Forli, Emilia-Romagno, Italy |
Calcarenite with spar-filled fractures. Cubic pyrite crystals coat back of specimen. |
464 |
Broccatello di Malcesine, nembro rosato, from Malcesine, Lake Garda, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Upper Jurassic limestone; a burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains but microbreccia-conglomerate in places. Note the extersitu stylolite development. |
502 |
Marmorato di Osimo, from Osimo, Ancona, Marches, Italy |
Burrowed nodular fossiliferous micritic limestone with abundant 'filaments' of Buchia/Posidonia (bivalves). |
439 |
Breccia rossa di Trapani, rosso di Castellammare, from Castellammare, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Jurassic-Cretaceous burrowed red, nodular micritic pelagic limestone with abundant thin-shelled bivalve (Bositra) debris. Note solution seams. |
49 |
Mandolà di Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, nembro rosato, from San Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed nodular biomicrite limestone crowded with skeletal grains, and with stylolite development around the nodules. Dark brown area is wax filler. |
42 |
Giallo di Verona, Verona yellow, giallo reale, from Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed/nodular bioclast-rich fine-grained limestone (micrite/microsparite) with extensive calcite-filled stylolites. Note that the darker stylolites are coloured by wax filler. It contains rare juvenile ammonoids. |
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. |
509 |
'Argilla di Terni', from Terni, Umbria, Italy; or may be Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy |
Burrowed micrite/microsparite limestone with abundant calcispheres and conspicuous dissolution fabrics (dark seams). |
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. |
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. |
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. |
287 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous burrowed fossiliferous micrite crowded with skeletal debris: bryozoans, crinoids, benthic forminifera etc. |
18 |
Palombino di Mazzurega, from Mazzurega, near Fumane, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed micritic limestone with calcite-filled fractures, perhaps Lower Cretaceous 'Biancone'. |
19 |
Palombino di Ancona, from Ancona, Marche, Italy is not confirmed but may be correct. |
Burrowed micritic limestone with patchily distributed planktonic forams and other bioclasts. It is possibly a variety of 'calcare massiccio'. |
70 |
Marmo rosso di Lugo, rosso Verona, from Lugo di Grezzana, in the Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
A burrowed bioclast and peloid-rich micritic limestone, probably from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico Formation. |
69 |
Marmo rosso d'Abruzzo, from Abruzzo, Italy. |
Burrowed bioclast-rich biomicrite limestone. |
455 |
Mischio di Casale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy, is doubtful |
Limestone breccia-conglomerate with scattered large bioclasts of marine organisms in a creamy microcrystalline matrix containing forams. Note extensive suturing of grain boundaries, and calcite filled fractures. |
176 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Rocca delli Panni, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia with voids filled by submarine cement. |
88 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
White limestone with relics of bioclasts, spar filled veins and a few yellowish iron oxide-stained veins and stylolites. It is likely to be part of a large clast from a breccia. |
111 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia with abundant crinoid and other fossil debris, in a dark grey matrix. The specimen is crossed by a white calcite vein. |
162 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary breccia with fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestone (dark) and pink Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone. |
163 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Capo Gallo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary breccia with fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestone (dark) and pink Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone. |
460 |
Breccia de'Colli Euganei, probably from Verona or Vicenza regions, Veneto Italy |
Brecciated limestone with pervasive stylolites. |
412 |
Breccia dorata, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone breccia with solution-modified fractures |
909 |
probably Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Sheared, recrystallised limestone breccia with some relic crinoid debris and abundant stylolites. |
109 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts, some green and chlorite-rich, in a grey matrix. |
409 |
Semesanto, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Polymict sheared limestone breccia in clay-rich matrix. |
474 |
breccia di Taormina, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy; or perhaps breccia della Villa Casali, locality unknown |
Polymict breccia of limestone clasts in red micritic matrix. |
448 |
Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Polymict limestone breccia. |
462 |
Breccia di Cori, from Cori, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
Intraformational limestone breccia of peloidal limestone (fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestones) in pink Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone matrix. |
170 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from River Verdura or Sosio, perhaps at San Carlo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone breccia. A syn-sedimentary breccia with matrix of pink Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone. |
172 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone. Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia cut by a neptunian dyke. |
213 |
Colombino della Punta Pina, from Punta Pina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Brecciated, micritic limestone with extensive calcite-filled fractures. |
115 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of pink somewhat fractured clasts in a black matrix. Note the calcite-filled vein following the clast margin. |
174 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Syn-sedimentary slump breccia with voids infilled by submarine cement. Note pervasive calcite-filled fractures. |
430 |
Pomorol di S.Giorgio, from San Giorgio, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated, stylolitised, biomicrite limestone with scattered intraclasts. |
476 |
Breccia di Prato, from Prato, Florence, Tuscany, Italy (unlikely) |
Poorly sorted polymict limestone breccia with many fossiliferous clasts. Clasts have green chloritic rims. |
41 |
Giallo di Verona, Verona yellow, from Torbe, or more probably Torri del Benaco, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fossiliferous biomicrite limestone crowded with large and small bioclasts. |
116 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia with abundant crinoid and other fossil debris, in a dark grey, partly oxidised to brown, matrix. |
905 |
Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Fine-grained compact limestone breccia of pink clasts. There are abundant stylolites, and later fractures are filled with white calcite. |
77 |
Portasanta, from north west of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece |
Large clasts of pale pink compact fine-grained limestone showing a reticulated network of stylolites. It is part of a breccia, and small areas of salmon-pink micritic matrix can be seen. |
44 |
'Marmo giallo di Sentro', perhaps from Centro Tregnago, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fine-grained limestone with calcite-filled fractures; heavily stylolitised. |
514 |
Argilla di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy |
Brecciated fine-grained limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite with scattered bioclasts (calcispheres or radiolaria). Fractures are calcite-filled. |
43 |
Pomorolo di Mizzolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fine-grained limestone crowded with rhombohedral microcrystals of calcite. It has prominent stylolites. Dark brown areas are wax filler. |
521 |
Broccatello di Sentro, from the Verona area, Veneto, Italy. 'Sentro' is perhaps Centro. |
Brecciated limestone containing scattered yellow euhedral rhombs of calcite, and dendritic manganese oxides. |
411 |
Breccia dorata, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone breccia/conglomerate with pervasive suturing and solution-modification of clast boundaries. |
914 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly-sorted largely recrystallised limestone clasts in a sparry calcite matrix coloured dark brown by included ferruginous matter (oxidised chlorite). It has abundant stylolites, some are white, other iron-stained orange-brown. Fractures are filled with calcite. |
107 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts in a black matrix. This specimen is crossed by white quartz veins. |
113 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted chlorite-rich limestone clasts, some with stylotised clast boundaries. |