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. |
299 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; note slender orange ferruginous bands often seen in this stone. Grey band at one corner is a filler. |
298 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Medium-grained compact banded travertine, very pure and almost entirely composed of calcite. |
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. |
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. |
295 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite. Dark yellow-brown wax filler covers a very narrow ferruginous orange-brown band. |
294 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite, but note slender orange ferruginous bands often seen in this stone. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
290 |
Lumachella del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy |
Jurassic fossiliferous calcarenite with punctate brachiopods (Terebratulids) and ammonites. |
289 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Miller's Dale, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous coral (Lithostrotion) limestone |
288 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Miller's Dale, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous coral (Lithostrotion) limestone |
287 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous burrowed fossiliferous micrite crowded with skeletal debris: bryozoans, crinoids, benthic forminifera etc. |
286 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from One Ash Grange, near Monyash, Derbyshire, England; perhaps from the nearby Brecks or Bricks quarry. |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous bioturbated fossiliferous micrite with bryozoan algae, brachiopods and other skeletal debris. It is extensively stylolitised; the stylolites having sparry hematitic fills. |
285 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Sheldon Moore, Derbyshire, England |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestone with intraclasts, and with suturing of grain contacts. |
284 |
Derbyshire fossil marble, from Monyash, Derbyshire, England; perhaps Ricklow quarry. |
Carboniferous Limestone; Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestone with spar cement cut by styoltized calcite-filled fractures. |
283 |
Broccatello di Casale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous limestone containing large benthic forams, calcareous algae, coral fragments etc, and cut by stylolitized fractures. |
282 |
Stellaria rossa di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Recrystallised colonial scleractinian coral with spar-filled voids. Interstices between coralites are filled with yellow bioclastic limestone. |
281 |
Meandrite di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Recrystallised colonial scleractinian coral with pink micrite and spar-filled voids. |
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. |
279 |
Lumachella di Valpolicella, perhaps giallo reale, from Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Biosparite limestone with abundant large benthic forams, algal nodules and grains, and molluscan debris. |
278 |
Marmo conchigliare rosso di Roma, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Fossiliferous calcareous sandstone with serpulid worm tubes and bivalve debris. |
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. |
276 |
Lumachella di Frascati, from Frascati, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Algal (?or cyanobacterial) limestone with sparse benthic forams and tubules probably of girvanellid algae. It has calcite-lined and sparry calcite-filled voids. |
275 |
Lumachella di Canova, possibly from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy; or Pietra Rosone di Trapani from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone containing algal nodules with abundant benthic forams in the matrix. The nodules have bryozoan/molluscan nuclei, and have extensive stylolitization and suturing of clast contacts. |
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. |
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. |
272 |
Lumachella del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous pelsparite with echinoderm debris and algal nodules, and with incipient stylolites. |
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. |
270 |
Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Mesozoic fossiliferous burrowed micritic limestone with abundant bioclasts: whole and fragmentary terebratulid brachiopods, crinoid debris, small benthic forams, and calcareous algae. It has spar-filled fractures and stylolites. |
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. |
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. |
267 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, from Lugo di Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite with debris of the Lower Jurassic reef-forming bivalves ‘Lithiotis’, probably Lithiotis problematica, as well as other bivalves, and gastropods. |
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. |
265 |
Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, lumachella Pernise, from Val Pernise; near Grezzana, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. A molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves, replaced by sparry calcite. A few gastropods are also present. A stylolite can be seen. |
264 |
Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. A molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves, replaced by sparry calcite, and with a few scarce gastropods. Some stylolites are evident. |
263 |
Marmo cenerino di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
A well-sorted bioclastic limestone with micrite matrix. |
262 |
Marmo ovara bianca di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Alveolinid limestone with algal grains and small intraclasts. |
261 |
Marmo schisto bigio di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Foraminiferal limestone (Alveolina?), with calcite-filled voids in the forams. |
260 |
Marmo schisto bianco di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. A fossiliferous biosparite with abundant benthic forams (Quinqueloculina, Alveolina), algae, and sclerosponge. It is probably Eocene. |
259 |
Marmo ovara bigio di Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with abundant small nummulites. Also present are diverse bethic forams, algal and molluscan grains. |
258 |
Lumachella degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy |
Poorly sorted conglomerate with limestone and marble clasts together with scattered calcareous algal nodules and bivalves (oysters). |
257 |
Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone. The matrix is fine-grained microspar crowded with bioclasts of benthic forams, molluscs, bryozoans, echinoderms, calcareous algae etc. It contains abundant silicate grains, as well as larger fossils and calcareous algae. |
256 |
Astracane di Verona, lumchella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. Molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves which are replaced by sparry calcite. It contains a few gastropods and has stylolites. |
255 |
Moregio di S.Ambrogio, from 'Sant'Ambrogio', Vicenza, Veneto, Italy - most likely the Chiampo area, Vicenza. |
Biosparite limestone with abundant skeletal debris of larger benthic forams (Nummulites, Assilina, Alveolina), small benthic forams, calcareous algae, echinoderms, and bryozoans. Note the pervasive incipient stylolites. It is probably of Middle Eocene age. |
254 |
Lumachella di Vialeta, from Vialeta, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Synsedimentary breccia of fossiliferous bioclast-rich microsparite limestone; the matrix is intraclast-rich with spar cement. |
253 |
'Lumachella di Fuligno', almost certainly not from Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
Fossiliferous biocalcarenite limestone with abundant recrystallised scleractinian coral, molluscan and other grains. Grain contacts are pervasively sutured. Note also stylolites and spar-filled fractures. |
252 |
Verdesino della Giazza, from Giazza, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fine-grained bioturbated limestone crowded with bioclasts, mostly thin-shelled bivalves. |
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. |
250 |
Marmo della Gaetta, from Gaetta, Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy; or more probably from the area north of Verona, Veneto, Italy. |
Bioclast-rich microsparite limestone with gastropods and bivalves; perhaps originally nodular/intraclastic/conglomeritic, now much brecciated. It has calcite-filled fractures and stylolites. |
249 |
Belgian red marble, rouge royale, from Namur, Belgium |
Devonian fine-grained red burrowed limestone with calcite-filled stromatactis. It is rich in bioclasts. Fossils include articulate brachiopods, orthocone nautiloids, and echinoderm debris. |
248 |
Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, lumachella Pernise, from Val Pernise, near Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. A molluscan biosparite crowded with whole and fragmentary brachiopods (probably terebratulids) and bivalves, replaced by sparry calcite. A few gastropods are evident, and it has stylolites. |
247 |
probably Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Limestone. Calcareous algal 'reef' with benthic foraminifera and bryozoans. It has solution-modified clay seams/solution seams. |
246 |
‘Lumachella di Lipari’; locality unknown. Not from the Lipari islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy. |
Fine-grained limestone crowded with largely spar-replaced bivalve shells and fragments. There are no igneous grains. |
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. |
244 |
Lumachella di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Fossiliferous limestone with spar-replaced gastropods, and terebratulid brachiopods. It was probably originally peloidal, with a sparry calcite cement. |
243 |
Lumachella di Domagiano, from 'Domagiano', Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone, with pel-sparite matrix, crowded with recrystallised spar-replaced whole and fragmentary bivalves (perhaps rudists). It shows intraclast suturing and stylolites. |
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. |
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. |
240 |
Lumachella di Abruzzo, from Scontrone, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy |
Limestone. A shell bed with abundant gastropods and large oysters. The matrix is grey biosparite crowded with bioclasts, predominantly molluscan, but also some small benthic forams. |
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. |
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. |
237 |
Botticino fiorito, from Botticino, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite with calcareous algae. |
236 |
Lumachella di Lugano, from Lake Lugano, Varese, Lombardy, Italy |
Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with abundant molluscan debris, peloids and coated grains, and a large ?cephalopod. Stylolites contain red filler/polishing compound. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
232 |
Lumachella rosea, from Kairouan, Tunisia |
Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant nummulites, subsidiary sponge, mollusc and serpulid debris. |
231 |
Lumachellone antico, locality unknown |
Limestone; fossiliferous biosparite with large gastropods, perhaps Actaeonellid gastropods. |
230 |
Lumachella nera, locality unknown |
Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with articulate brachiopods (pentamerids?, some wholly or partially spar-infilled), solitary corals, and crinoid debris. It is of Upper Palaeozoic age. |
229 |
Lumachella orientale, from Henchir Kasbat (the ancient Thuburbo Maius), Tunisia |
Fossiliferous biosparite limestone. A lumachelle of rolled, predominantly bivalve debris, recrystallized in part, and with subsidiary other skeletal debris. |
228 |
Lumachella orientale, from Henchir Kasbat (the ancient Thuburbo Maius), Tunisia |
Fossiliferous biosparite limestone. A lumachelle of rolled, predominantly bivalve debris, recrystallised in part, and with subsidiary other skeletal debris. |
227 |
Stellaria, locality unknown; not from Egypt |
Coral limestone. A recrystallised colonial scleractinian (= hexacoral) coral, of Mesozoic or more recent age. |
226 |
Lumachella rosea, from Kairouan, Tunisia |
Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant nummulites, subsidiary sponge, mollusc, and serpulid debris. Fractures are calcite-filled. |
225 |
Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. Fossiliferous biosparite with abundant recrystallised molluscs, mainly brachiopod (probably terebratulid) and bivalve debris, other bioclasts, and possible limestone intraclasts. It has stylolites and calcite-filled fractures. |
224 |
Astracane di Verona, lumachella di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite/microsparite with abundant recrystallised brachiopod (probably terebratulid) and bivalve debris. |
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. |
222 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone roseo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous fossiliferous limestone with abundant recrystallised/spar replaced rudist bivalves. |
221 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone bigio, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts. |
220 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone rosso, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts. |
219 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone nero, locality unknown |
Limestone; a black biosparite matrix with abundant recrystallised bivalves. |
218 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone bianco, perhaps from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a fossiliferous micrite/microsparite crowded with recrystallised bivalve debris. |
217 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone pavonazzo, from Kutluca, Izmit, Turkey |
Late Cretaceous limestone containing rudist bivalves, forams and other bioclasts. |
216 |
Broccatellone from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Limestone breccia-conglomerate with a ferruginous matrix. It has extensive post-depositional fracturing and calcite veining. |
215 |
Lumachella antica, from Mégara, Attica, Greece |
Nummulitic limestone of Middle Eocene age. |
214 |
Marmo pavonazzo dell'Alpi, from the Alps |
Micaceous ?siltstone (siliceous), with calcite-filled veins. |
213 |
Colombino della Punta Pina, from Punta Pina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Brecciated, micritic limestone with extensive calcite-filled fractures. |
212 |
Colombino roseo dell'Elba, from Punta Pina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Pink micritic limestone, altered to yellow where it is crossed by two generations of calcite-filled fractures. It has disseminated black manganese oxides and pyrite. |
211 |
Verde di Bagnaia, from Bagnaia, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy; or perhaps ribbon jasper from the Ural Mountains, Russia. |
Siliceous rock featuring abundant green reduction spots; it may possibly be a metamorphosed burrowed mudstone. The specimen is coated with beeswax. |
210 |
Marmorato di Como, from Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Birdseye limestone, probably originally a peloidal micrite. Oncolites, rounded sedimentary structures resulting from cyanobacterial growth, can be seen in places. |
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. |
208 |
Languedoc marble, from Caunes-Minervois, Carcassonne, Aude, France |
Devonian red limestone rich in crinoid debris, with prominent grey-white stromatactis and abundant stylolites. |
207 |
Breccia de' Gherardeschi, perhaps from Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone. A bio-pel micrite crowded with small intraclasts and shell debris. Anastomosing white material is calcite-replaced scleractinian coral. Note the extensive development of stylolites. |
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. |
205 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite. A sheared marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures |
204 |
Rosso di Monte Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone; a burrowed biomicrite with tiny bioclasts. |
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. |
202 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia - a tectonised, sheared limestone, rich in hematite evident as red colouring and metallic grey grains. |
201 |
Marmo di Brentónico, from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Fractured, stylolitised, burrowed nodular limestone. It is fine-grained, and variably bioclast-rich/bioclast-poor, with scattered ammonoids. Patches are rich in dolomite rhombs. |