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
701stone 701 Verde di Corsica mandolato, from near Orezza, Monte San Petrone, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France Sheared metagabbro, the diopside and actinolite-tremolite both coloured bright green by trace chromium.
702stone 702 Verde plasma di Corsica, from near Orezza, Monte San Petrone, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France Metagabbro, the diopside and actinolite-tremolite both coloured bright green by trace chromium.
703stone 703 Lapis lazuli, from Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan Rock composed of lazurite, probably with minor blue sodalite, and with flecks of pyrite and minor white calcite; from a marble deposit formed by contact metamorphism.
704stone 704 Amazon stone, from Russia; most probably from Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Amazonite or amazon stone, a variety of microcline feldspar.
705stone 705 Labradorite, from St Paul's Island, Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada Labradorite, a variety of plagioclase feldspar.
706stone 706 Orthoclase 'adularia', from the Alps; probably from St Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland Adularia, a variety of orthoclase feldspar.
707stone 707 Quartz chalcedony or more probably flint, locality unknown Quartz var. chalcedony, coloured by included iron silicates.
708stone 708 Marmor aequipondus, perhaps from Liguria, Italy Serpentinised (or possibly fine amphibolitised) peridotite with coarse-grained green former pyroxenes, pale green former olivine domains, and opaque oxide.
709stone 709 Serpentina delle Alpi, from the Alps Serpentinite with colourless plagioclase porphyroblasts. Orange coloration is wax filler.
710stone 710 Serpentina delle Alpi, from Perhaps the Western Alps Sheared serpentinite with oval augen (former pyroxene) and fairly abundant iron oxide. Shear fabric is present throughout, but one part of sample has paler (leached) serpentine.
711stone 711 Quartz 'rock crystal', from Madagascar Part of a large single crystal of rock crystal, the colourless variety of quartz. Some gas inclusions are evident along internal crystal planes.
712stone 712 Amethyst, locality unknown Amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, part of a vein or geode showing the typical colour zoning of the crystals described by Corsi.
713stone 713 Quartz, only slightly amethystine, locality unknown Very coarsely granular quartz, showing iridescence due to internal flaws, and containing inclusions of small aggregates of specular hematite crystals. It is barely amethystine in colour.
714stone 714 Petrified wood, locality unknown Wood with bivalve borings (mainly visible on sides of specimen) infilled with limestone, the whole subsequently silicified. Note scattered pyrite crystals in borings.
715stone 715 Petrified wood, locality unknown Silicified wood; but lacking knots and very much paler than Corsi describes.
716stone 716 Petrified wood, locality unknown Silicified wood, partly stained and banded with brown goethite and red hematite.
717stone 717 Petrified wood, locality unknown Silicified wood, cavities infilled with quartz crystals.
718stone 718 Petrified wood, locality unknown Silicified wood with very well-preserved cell structure, most probably opal rather than quartz.
719stone 719 Jasper, locality unknown This appears to be a largely silicified oolitic ironstone or oolitic ironstone breccia. Swarms of sub-parallel dark brown fractures give the impression of wood grain.
720stone 720 'Aventurine' (ferruginous sandstone), perhaps from Gebel Ahmar, Cairo or Gebels Gulab or Tingar, Aswan, all in the Nile Valley, Egypt Orthoquartzite; a poorly sorted coarse siliceous sandstone/fine conglomerate with goethite coating grains and a silica cement.
721stone 721 'Aventurine' (ferruginous sandstone), perhaps from Gebel Ahmar, Cairo or Gebels Gulab or Tingar, Aswan, all in the Nile Valley, Egypt Quartzite with a hematitic clay inclusions in the silica cement.
722stone 722 Aventurine quartz, from Siberia, Russia; or possibly from Egypt Quartzite coloured by hematite and goethite, in places the grain coatings giving some aventurine effect.
723stone 723 Agata bianca antica, locality unknown Part of a grey agate (colour banded quartz var. chalcedony) with an inner ‘core’ of quartz var. rock crystal, in turn enclosing pinkish chalcedony.
724stone 724 Chalcedony, locality unknown Chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz) with small cavities lined with quartz crystals. There is no evidence of agate banding.
725stone 725 Moss agate, agata di Sardegna, from Sardinia, Italy White chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz) with subtle agate banding, and extensive dendritic iron/manganese oxides.
726stone 726 Rhodonite, from Maloe Sedelnikovo, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia Massive pink rhodonite, with brown bustamite and other manganese silicates. Black manganese oxides emanate from fractures.
727stone 727 Agata delle Alpi, from the Alps Chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz) showing local small-scale cloudy agate-banding; heavily fractured, the fractures iron-stained.
728stone 728 Agata, locality unknown Chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz) with aligned pink jaspery inclusions showing a few relic fossils suggesting silicified limestone; and with scattered black dendrites and other small dark sulphide/oxide mineral inclusions. The stone has been sheared and fractured, the thin fractures filled with calcite.
729stone 729 Agata del San Gottardo, from San Gottardo - perhaps St Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland Chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz) - perhaps from a large chert pebble, jaspery towards rim.
730stone 730 Agata del San Stefano, from Santo Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento Sicily, Italy; or more probably quarzo di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated agate, colourless crystalline quartz cement with spherular limonitic inclusions. Agate-lined quartz-filled fractures.
731stone 731 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated brown jasper; agate matrix is patchy with hematitic inclusions in some bands; crystalline quartz fills voids. Buff-coloured areas are filler.
732stone 732 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Monreale, from Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated brown jasper with matrix and fracture fills of colourless crystalline quartz.
733stone 733 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Cefalú, probably from Cefalà Diana or Bagni di Cefalà, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Yellow-brown brecciated jasper with narrow chalcedony-filled fractures and agate matrix, matrix voids filled with crystalline quartz. Pale speckled areas are filler.
734stone 734 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Selinunte, from Selinunte, near Marinella, Trapani, Sicily, Italy Yellow brecciated jasper with chalcedony matrix, faintly agate banded in places with few translucent red/yellow bands. Note crystalline quartz-filled fractures contain layers of ?muscovite crystals.
735stone 735 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Adrano, from Adriano, Sicily, Italy Brecciated yellow jasper, clasts heavily fractured, fracture-fill and matrix are greyish white chalcedony stained yellowish away from clasts. Brown patches on specimen are filler, generally in crystalline quartz-lined cavities.
736stone 736 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated jasper; relatively unfractured large yellowish clasts, many with halos of yellow goethite banded with cream-coloured microcrystalline quartz. Matrix further away from clasts is colourless-milky agate.
737stone 737 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Caccamo, from Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper with yellow brown-dark brown clasts. Colourless crystalline quartz matrix has areas of chalcedony with botryoidal surface clearly visible in some places.
738stone 738 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Giancavallo, from Feudo Giancavallo, near Bisaquino, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper, clasts mainly yellow, in places altered grey-brown. Matrix of colourless crystalline quartz has some inclusions of iron sulphides on ghost faces. Agate is present as late stage infill within quartz matrix.
739stone 739 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Milazzo, from Milazzo, Messina, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper; matrix forms faint agate halos around clasts, elsewhere it is colourless quartz. Single crystals may enclose many small clasts or fill a whole fracture.
740stone 740 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated grey-white chalcedony, agate in part; many clasts have halos of yellow goethite banded with cream-coloured microcrystalline quartz, the latter present elsewhere as matrix.
741stone 741 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy, and most probably from Giancavallo, Bisaquino, Grattieri, or Santa Caterina, all in the province of Palermo. Brecciated jasper (ferruginous compact fine-grained quartz); brown/yellow/green translucent clasts in colourless crystalline quartz matrix. Yellow speckled 'clasts' and brown 'veins' are wax filler.
742stone 742 almost certainly quarzo di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated banded crystalline slightly smoky-amethystine quartz with some included euhedral black crystals, and aligned white 'feathers' of bubble inclusions. The reddish-brown bands are artificial filler in fracture cavities.
743stone 743 Diaspro antico, locality unknown Siliciified limestone or ironstone rich in relic shells of microfossils, and crossed by many slender fractures filled with colourless quartz. Some stylolites are present.
744stone 744 Diaspro antico, locality unknown Brecciated jasper with black-speckled clasts, many with full or partial rims of opaque white chalcedony. Colourless/white/grey agate matrix has patchy yellow speckling, euhedral crystal inclusions of goethite, and minor late-stage crystalline quartz. No sardonyx is present.
745stone 745 Sicilian jasper, most probably diaspro di Giuliana, from Sicily, Italy, and most probably from Giuliana, Palermo. Brecciated red jasper with rims of opaque white chalcedony. Colourless crystalline quartz matrix is iron-stained and vughy away from clasts. Clasts have colourless quartz-filled fractures.
746stone 746 Sicilian jasper, from Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper; part red with colourless agate/crystalline quartz matrix, part yellow-brown with colourless crystalline quartz matrix. Later fractures are also filled with colourless quartz.
747stone 747 Sicilian jasper, from Sicily, Italy Brecciated yellow jasper, heavily fractured, with chalcedony/agate-filled fractures and cement. Orange red 'veins' are artificial filler in open fractures.
748stone 748 Diaspro della Tolfa, from Monti della Tolfa, near Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy (not confirmed) Colourless fine-grained quartz with bands and scattered inclusions of pyrite. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound. Circular aggregates of quartz crystals visible on side of specimen resemble silicified coral.
749stone 749 Diaspro della Tolfa, from Monti della Tolfa, near Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy (not confirmed) Quartzite composed of fine-grained granular quartz with flecks of brown siderite. Cavities contain buff-grey filler.
750stone 750 Opal, resinite della Tolfa, from Monti della Tolfa, near Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy Massive resinite, a variety of opal; ferruginous coloration.
751stone 751 Diaspro delle Alpi, from the Alps (not confirmed) Deformed ferruginous chert, markedly dense hematite-rich rock. Fractures are filled with greenish quartz. It might be associated with an ophiolite deposit.
752stone 752 'Diaspro delle Alpi', from the Alps (not confirmed) Breccia of white granular quartz and other clasts, many rimmed with muscovite, in a red ferruginous quartz matrix. Some fractures are filled with calcareous cemented sandstone. The whole rock is sheared and folded.
753stone 753 Diaspro delle Alpi, from the Alps Green/brown banded jasper; a siliciified limestone or ironstone showing some recognisable tests of microfossils. It is crossed by many slender fractures filled with colourless quartz. Some stylolites and fractures are present. Chlorite inclusions colour the darkest bands.
754stone 754 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Off-white chert clasts in a partially silicified, partly calcite or more probably dolomite matrix.
755stone 755 probably Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy Jasper - a silicified ferruginous limestone, with agate-filled voids and patches of creamy white crystalline calcite. Goethite forms spherular inclusions in orange jasper.
756stone 756 Diaspro di Barga, from Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Milky white chalcedony with aggregates of red hematitic inclusions is cut by a rhombohedral network of fine calcite-filled fractures. Later chalcedony/colourless quartz replaces and is coloured by orange brown siderite. Secondary fractures are more sinuous and random. Dark brown areas are filler/polishing compound.
757stone 757 Diaspro di Barga, from Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy A breccia of brown jaspery fragments in colourless crystalline quartz, in turn surrounded by white chalcedony, voids are filled with yellowish crystalline quartz.
758stone 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.
759stone 759 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Fractured, rounded jaspery clasts, haloes with banded colourless/ferruginous quartz, in a matrix of colourless granular dolomite.
760stone 760 'Diaspro delle Alpi', from the Alps Chert; a silicified limestone with abundant forams and other fossil debris.
761stone 761 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Santa Cristina Gela, from Santa Cristina Gela, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Breccia of yellow-brown jasper clasts cemented by agate, with cavities infilled by colourless quartz crystals. The whole rock has been heavily fractured, and recemented with quartz or with brown to black iron/manganese oxides, which also emanate as dendrites from fractures. A wide vein of granular orange calcite crosses the back of the specimen.
762stone 762 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Misilmeri, from Misilmeri, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper. Heavily fractured clasts are green or transparent with patchy yellow inclusions. Cement is crystalline quartz and pale green microcrystalline calcite. Dark brown and dark green speckled areas are filler.
763stone 763 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Adrano, from Adragno, near Sambuca, Trapani, Sicily, Italy Yellow-brown jaspery areas are cemented by opague white or colourless chalcedony, agate-banded in place. Cavities are infilled with colourless quartz crystals. Fractures crossing specimen are filled with agate. Larger brown patches are filler.
764stone 764 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy A fractured banded yellow and green jasper breccia, matrix and fracture fills are part chalcedony part colourless quartz. Microfossils are abundant in bright yellow areas.
765stone 765 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Castro Giovanni, from either Enna, Sicily, or more probably Monte di Castrogiovanni, near Bivona, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Silicified limestone/limestone conglomerate coloured black by included crystals of hematite. A large yellow goethitic pebble is prominent, and scattered mollusc shells are also evident. Matrix and fracture fills are chalcedony.
766stone 766 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di San Stefano di Quisquina, from Santo Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Silicified polymict limestone conglomerate with scattered pyrite and rhombohedral ?dolomite crystals, and some residual fossils. Matrix is part chalcedonic, part colourless quartz. Speckled green areas are filler.
767stone 767 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy A banded brown, yellow and green jasper breccia, matrix and fracture fills are part chalcedony part colourless quartz, fractures also with bands of pyrite. Microfossils are evident in some bright yellow areas.
768stone 768 Sicilian jasper, probably diaspro di Collesano, probably from Collesano, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Yellow-brown jasper with cavities and fractures infilled with chalcedony which is agate-banded in places, or with colourless crystalline quartz. Some dendrites of manganese/iron oxides are evident.
769stone 769 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Piano Maglio, from Piano Maglio, Altofonte, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Heavily fractured banded jasper with rhombohedral carbonate mineral inclusions (dolomite/siderite?). Fractures are filled with grey agate, in turn filled with colourless quartz. Fine calcite or ankerite veins cross the specimen.
770stone 770 Sicilian jasper, probably diaspro di Troina, from Troina, Enna, Sicily, Italy Radiolarian chert coloured by included limonite mainly concentrated between radiolaria tests. The few thin fractures are agate-banded.
771stone 771 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated red jasper with heavily-fractured agate matrix. Wider fractures are filled with white fine-grained quartz and yellowish carbonate mineral, the latter also present as colourless-yellow zoned rhombohedral crystals in both jasper and agate matrix. Pinkish-brown areas are filler.
772stone 772 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di San Stefano di Quisquina, from Santo Stefano Quiquina, Bivona, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Silicified limestone breccia with agate/crystalline quartz matrix and filling of fractures. Darker brown areas are filler.
773stone 773 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Cammerata, from Cammarata, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Jasper partly coloured by yellow-brown goethitic inclusions, partly by a mixture of goethitic and green silicate mineral inclusions.
774stone 774 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Breccia or red jasper clasts in a white quartz/agate matrix, re-fractured and cemented with colourless crystalline quartz containing scattered inclusions of green chlorite.
775stone 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.
776stone 776 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Palermo, probably diaspro di Navurra, from Palermo, Sicily, Italy; most probably from Feudo Navurra, near Casteldaccia. Brecciated jasper, clasts mottled orange/red with colourless/scarlet banded agate around rims. Matrix is impure grey or pure white coarsely crystalline calcite.
777stone 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.
778stone 778 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper. Red hematitic pellitic clasts are brown, goethitic at margins and along fractures, and are surrounded by milky agate. Matrix is creamy white granular/drusy calcite with patchy iron-staining.
779stone 779 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy A breccia of green and brown jaspery siliceous clasts in a red, iron-stained, calcareous matrix
780stone 780 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Taormina, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Quartzite, coloured red by iron-bearing solutions emanating from fractures.
781stone 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.
782stone 782 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Monreale, from Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Heavily fractured red jasper, fractures are agate-filled. Side view shows some yellowish agate with platy inclusions of pyrite/marcasite. There are some small infills of crystalline quartz and a few quartz-filled fractures.
783stone 783 Imperial porphyry, porfido rosso antico, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry with pink phenocrysts of plagioclase feldspar. The purple colour is due largely to trace piemontite, the manganese member of the epidote group, and indicates a degree of metamorphism. It is from the Precambrian basement rocks.
784stone 784 Imperial porphyry, porfido rosso antico, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry with patches of white phenocrysts of plagioclase feldspar. The purple colour is due largely to trace piemontite, the manganese member of the epidote group, indicating a degree of metamorphism. It is from the Precambrian basement rocks.
785stone 785 Imperial porphyry, porfido bastardone, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry; the 'bastardone' variety with white phenocrysts of plagioclase feldspar largely concentrated in scattered patches of brown groundmass. The purple colour of the greater part of this stone is due largely to trace piemontite, the manganese member of the epidote group, and indicates a degree of metamorphism.
786stone 786 Imperial porphyry, porfido bigio, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry; pink to white phenocrysts of plagioclase feldspar and black euhedral crystals of hornblende in a grey-brown groundmass.
787stone 787 Lapis ieracites, porfido verde egiziano, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry of white plagioclase phenocrysts with epidotised rims in a greenish-black groundmass.
788stone 788 Imperial porphyry, porfido nero, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry of white plagioclase phenocrysts in a black groundmass.
789stone 789 probably porfido Trentino, from the Alps, and probably from the area of Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy Porphyritic rhyolite or dacite with phenocrysts of quartz, feldspar and biotite.
790stone 790 Porfido Trentino, porfido Atesino, from Bolzano area, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy Pophyritic rhyolite with phenocrysts of quartz, feldspar and biotite.
791stone 791 Porfido di Corsica, from Corsica, France Altered amygdaloidal porphyritic olivine basalt. Pseudomorphed euhedral phenocrysts of olivine and subhedral pyroxene are set in a dark grey fine-grained groundmass of pyroxene, olivine and feldspar. Olivine pseudomorphs contain dark oxide and carbonate. Amygdales have infillings of carbonate and silicate minerals, and many have reaction zones against groundmass in which the latter is lighter-coloured and coarser-grained.
792stone 792 Granito bigio, granito a morviglione, from the area between Frejus and Dramont, Esterel Mountains, Var, France Porphyritic dacite, with phenocrysts of white compositionally zoned plagioclase feldspar and dark green to black hornblende.
793stone 793 Granito bigio, granito a morviglione, from the area between Frejus and Dramont, Esterel Mountains, Var, France Porphyritic dacite, with phenocrysts of white compositionally zoned plagioclase feldspar and dark green hornblende.
794stone 794 Porfido del'Elba, from the island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy Porphyritic andesite or trachyandesite. Subhedral phenocrysts of plagioclase and pyroxene in fine-grained reddish-brown groundmass, possibly devitrified glass. Curved alignment of crystals indicates viscous flow.
795stone 795 Swedish porphyry, from Älvdalen, Dalarna, Sweden Lamprophyre (minette group). Poikilocrysts of brown (?kaersutitic) amphibole up to 25mm enclosing subhedral crystals of pyroxene, feldspar and opaque mineral. Groundmass contains carbonate and possible feldspathoid.
796stone 796 most probably Lapis Iaracites, porfido verde Egiziano, from Gebel Dokhan, Eastern Desert, Egypt Andesite-dacite porphyry of white plagioclase phenocrysts in a grey-black groundmass. Very minor epidotisation of the plagioclase.
797stone 797 Porfido serpentino antico, from Krokees (Levetsova), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece Porphyritic andesite of Permian to Carboniferous age, weakly metamorphosed and coloured green by epidote and other iron silicates. The phenocrysts are plagioclase feldspar.
798stone 798 Porfido serpentino antico, from Krokees (Levetsova), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece Porphyritic andesite of Permian to Carboniferous age, weakly metamorphosed and coloured green by epidote and other iron silicates. The phenocrysts are plagioclase feldspar.
799stone 799 Porfido serpentino antico, from Krokees (Levetsova), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece Porphyritic andesite of Permian to Carboniferous age, weakly metamorphosed and coloured green by epidote and other iron silicates. The phenocrysts are plagioclase feldspar.
800stone 800 Porfido serpentino antico, from Krokees (Levetsova), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece Porphyritic andesite of Permian to Carboniferous age, weakly metamorphosed and coloured green by epidote and other iron silicates. The phenocrysts are plagioclase feldspar.
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