114 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts. Note stylolites. |
102 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone and green Fe-silicate bearing clasts in a variably iron-stained micritic matrix . |
103 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone and limestone breccia clasts in a green chlorite/epidote-rich matrix, but with some characteristic black matrix also evident. |
106 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts in a green chlorite-rich matrix. |
108 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts in a green chlorite-rich matrix. |
112 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts which have been partially oxidised. |
101 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts in a chlorite-bearing greenish matrix. It has calcite-filled veins, and crinoids and other fossil debris within the clasts. |
915 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly-sorted limestone and metamorphic clasts, the latter rich in green iron silicates. The matrix is green, chlorite-rich. |
913 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly-sorted grey-brown biospar limestone clasts in a microspar matrix rich in red, brown and yellow ferruginous matter (oxidised chlorite). The same colours abundant stylolites. Cavities are filled with sparry calcite. |
413 |
Breccia gialla, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone breccia/conglomerate. |
104 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate; this specimen is cut almost entirely from a single pink somewhat fractured clast which has abundant stylolites. Small areas of black matrix are evident. |
452 |
Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Limestone breccio-conglomerate, very poorly sorted; the matrix is clear crystalline calcite in places, elsewhere full of microfauna-rich grains. |
945 |
Breccia pavonazza bruna o dal suffragio, locality unknown |
Polymict breccia-conglomerate. Smaller clasts in matrix are realatively rounded and ferruginous reddish-brown, and all clasts are have ferruginous mainly stylolitic clast boundaries Voids are filled with sparry calcite. A few clasts contain bright green, 'fushsite' (chromium-bearing muscovite). |
117 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a chlorite-rich matrix crossed by stylolites. |
483 |
'Breccia traccagnina di Giazza', locality unknown; possibly the Verona area, Veneto, Italy |
Polymict limestone breccia-conglomerate with solution modified clast boudaries. |
105 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a black matrix. |
216 |
Broccatellone from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Limestone breccia-conglomerate with a ferruginous matrix. It has extensive post-depositional fracturing and calcite veining. |
450 |
Breccia della Gaetta, from Gaetta (Gaeta), Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone breccio-conglomerate in pink limestone matrix. |
948 |
Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Tectonised limestone breccia-conglomerate. |
434 |
Breccia dorata, from Montagnola Senese, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of fine-grained recrystallised limestone (probably weakly metamorphosed) clasts, closely packed, with minimal red calcareous matrix. Pink colour is leached, not present in rims of larger clasts and all the smaller clasts. It has stylolites, stylolitised clast boundaries, and a few sparry calcite-filled cavities. |
433 |
'Breccia di Brentonega di Dolce nel Veronese', from Dolce, Verona, Veneto, Italy, or from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Jurassic ?syn-sedimentary breccia with micritic limestone clasts, sparry matrix, stylolites and spar-filled voids. |
404 |
Breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Limestone breccia with extensive solution-modified stylolitic clast contacts, and calcite-filled fractures/veins. |
435 |
Breccia di Canneto, from Canneto, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of grey micritic limestone clasts showing 'paesination' (microfracture constrained iron-staining like that of pietra paesina, q.v.) |
22 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, largely recrystallised, in a ferruginous sparry micritic matrix. |
28 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils), and stylolites. |
33 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils), and minor dendrites of manganese oxides. |
32 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils). |
23 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. |
30 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. |
31 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. |
34 |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia |
Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. It has been cut to show where the matrix has turned grey as a result of exposure to anoxic reducing conditions. Other parts of this specimen are the normal colour of a giallo antico. |
125 |
Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Breccia of almost black limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix. |
126 |
Petit antique, from area around Hèche and Hèchettes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Breccia of black and grey limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix. |
128 |
Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Breccia of grey limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix. |
418 |
Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France |
Black limestone breccia with calcite-filled voids and fractures. Some beige coloured areas are fossiliferous clasts and margins to black clasts. |
943 |
Breccia rossa, locality unknown |
Metamorphosed (tectonised) limestone breccia with calcite/hematite-filled fractures, solution seams and stylolites. |
552 |
Gesso di Faenza, from Faenza, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
Calcite-cemented breccia with small angular gypsum clasts, patches of micritic limestone and smaller dark grains. |
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. |
167 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Synsedimentary limestone breccia. |
177 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy |
Slumped syn-sedimentary limestone breccia. |
438 |
Breccia di Brescia, from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Limestone breccia. |
458 |
Pomarolo di Serme, from Serme, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated limestone with red, non-calcareous (perhaps lateritic) matrix. |
467 |
Breccia di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy |
Black limestone breccia with white limestone matrix. |
76 |
Marmo nero di Como, from Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Black bituminous limestone with inclusions of organic matter, perhaps coprolites. |
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. |
505 |
Marmo venato di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy |
Recrystallised, probably originally bioturbated, micritic or microspar limestone with extensive stylolites and calcite filled fractures. |
506 |
'Corso della mola di Sant'Ambrogio', from Sant' Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Recrystallised, probably originally bioturbated, micritic or microspar limestone with extensive stylolites and calcite filled fractures. |
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. |
173 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Castellammare, Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Bioturbated limestone, most probably of the Cretaceous-Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. It is a fossiliferous pelagic biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres together with some molluscan debris. Note the calcite-filled fractures. |
175 |
Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Tertiary limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous pelagic biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres, with some molluscan debris. Note calcite-filled fractures. |
141 |
Bigio antico, bigio morato, locality unknown |
Grey-brown bioturbated limestone with a few mollusc fragments. Note white coarse-grained spar-filled cavities and fractures, and abundant stylolites. The surface is waxed and polished. |
179 |
Rosso di Malcesine, from Malcesine, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres. It has extensive development of orange-red stylolites. |
54 |
Marmo carnagione di Terni, perhaps from the province of Terni, Italy |
Limestone, probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Upper Cretaceous). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicite with abundant tiny planktonic forams and calcispheres. Bioclasts are calcite filled. Many sub-parallel slender calcite-filled fractures are evident, as are a few manganese oxide dendrites. |
53 |
Marmo carnagione, persichino di Mazzurega, from Mazzurega, near Fumane, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Limestone from the Upper Cretaceous Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres, and with a few stylolites. |
52 |
‘Marmo carnagione d'Asti’; probably from Italy, but Asti, in Piedmont, is very doubtful. |
Limestone from the Upper Cretaceous Scaglia Rossa Formation. A bioturbated biomicrite with planktonic forams and abundant tiny bioclasts. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
231 |
Lumachellone antico, locality unknown |
Limestone; fossiliferous biosparite with large gastropods, perhaps Actaeonellid gastropods. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
342 |
Lumachella di San Vitale, from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous biosparite limestone with large fragments of 'lithiotis' bivalves. Original aragonite shells are replaced by sparry calcite. Some primary prismatic calcite survives. Note the calcite filled fractures and stylolites. |
219 |
Lumachella antica, occhio di pavone nero, locality unknown |
Limestone; a black biosparite matrix with abundant recrystallised bivalves. |
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. |
12 |
Palombino antico, probably from Turkey, but perhaps from the Apennines of Italy |
Biosparite limestone with abundant bivalve fragments. It fluoresces yellow strongly under longwave ultraviolet light. |
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. |
45 |
Marmo giallo e turchino di Mizzolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Burrowed limestone. The grey matrix is a fossiliferous grain-supported bio-pel micrite limestone. The yellow burrow-filling has subhedral rhombic calcite crystals, appearing peloidal in places. It has stylolites and stylolitised pellet contacts. |
38 |
Marmo scuro di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (not confirmed) |
Biomicrite limestone densely packed with tests of foraminifera and other plankton, with calcite-filled veins and (on the sides of the specimen) dendrites of black manganese oxides. The whole stone has ferruginous staining constrained by the fracture pattern. |
67 |
Marmo rosso di Prodo, from Prodo, or more probably Colonnetta di Prodo, Terni, Umbria, Italy |
Limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres. Disrupted banding marks a layer that has transported and re-sedimented, probably the result of slumping. Fractures are calcite-filled. |
16 |
Lithographic limestone, pietra litografica, from the southern Franconian Alb (probably quarries at Solnhofen or Kelheim), Bavaria, Germany |
Upper Jurassic limestone from the Solnhofen Platternkalk Formation. A fossiliferous biomicrite with scattered acicular bioclasts (probably sponge spicules). |
232 |
Lumachella rosea, from Kairouan, Tunisia |
Middle Eocene nummulitic limestone. A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant nummulites, subsidiary sponge, mollusc and serpulid debris. |
504 |
Marmo venato di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy |
Biomicrite with scattered dendritic manganese oxides. Side of specimen shows slumping and intraclasts in stylolitised shelly limestone. Note subsequent extensive fracturing, the fractures calcite-filled. |
182 |
Rosa corallo, from Verona, Veneto, Italy; Torri del Benaco is doubtful. |
Limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Eocene). A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant tiny bioclasts and large intraclasts floating in matrix, probably a debris flow. Note the conspicuous stylolites. |
46 |
Marmo giallo di Lubiara, from Lubiara, Caprino Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Biomicrite limestone with scattered small bioclasts, slender fractures and stylolites. Sparse large intraclasts suggest it is from a debris-flow deposit. |
555 |
Arenaria di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Bioclastic limestone with microspar matrix. It has white algal grains and spar-filled anastomising vugs, probably incipient birds-eyes. |
75 |
Marmo nero di Trapani, perhaps marmo nero di Erice from Monte San Giuliano; Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Bioclastic limestone with abundant black recrystallised relics of microfossils. The side of the specimen shows the black coloration is constrained by calcite-filled microfractures giving the effect of pietra paesina (ruin marble). |
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. |
338 |
Marmo rosa di Stalavena, from Stalavena di Grezzana, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Not a travertine and so incorrectly classified as alabaster. This is a bioclast-rich burrowed micritic limestone with stylolites and spar-filled fractures. |
73 |
probably marmo nero di Roverè, perhaps from Prun, but more likely Roverè di Velo, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Bituminous bioclastic limestone. The sides of the specimen show it has a distinctly laminar texture. |
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. |
556 |
Arenaria di Viggiù, from Viggiù, Varese, Lombardy, Italy |
Bioturbated fine biocalcarenite. The grains are predominantly echinoderm, probably crinoidal. It has solution seams/incipient stylolites. |
554 |
Arenaria di Brianza, from the Brianza area, Lombardy, Italy |
Fine-grained biocalcarenite with micritic/microspar matrix. |
63 |
Porporina di villa Adriana, locality unknown |
Hematite-rich banded limestone with some colourless sparry calcite-filled veins, and abundant cavities which are filled with wax on polished surfaces. Probably extensively recrystallised. |
981 |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy |
Banded jasper, perhaps originally oolitic ironstone or limestone. Cavities and fractures are filled with colourless quartz. |
376 |
Derbyshire 'alabaster', from Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England; perhaps the Bondog-Hole mine |
Very pure colourless banded speleothem calcite with a small area of the host Carboniferous Limestone. |
64 |
Marmo rosso di Sabina; Sabina, Umbria, Italy is not confirmed as the locality. |
A laminated limestone containing bioclasts and peloids (pellet-sized grains) in a sparite matrix. |
373 |
Derbyshire rosewood marble, from Nettler Dale, near Ashford, Derbyshire, England |
Limestone; a Carboniferous laminated algal biomicrite. Note synsedimentary brecciation of algal laminites. |
372 |
Derbyshire rosewood marble, from Nettler Dale, near Ashford, Derbyshire, England |
Limestone; a Carboniferous laminated algal biomicrite. |
513 |
Palombino venato, locality unknown |
Algal limestone. |
960 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Heavily fractured micritic limestone with sparry calcite-filled fractures. Ferruginous staining is constrained by the fractures and shows banded Liesegang rings, together giving the 'paesina' effect. It is almost certainly from the Cretaceous to Eocene Alberese Formation. |
959 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Heavily fractured micritic limestone with sparry calcite-filled fractures and stylolites. Ferruginous staining is constrained by the fractures giving the 'paesina' effect. It is almost certainly from the Cretaceous to Eocene Alberese Formation. |
958 |
Pietra paesina, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Heavily fractured micritic limestone with abundant tiny bioclasts, stylolites and orange and white sparry calcite-filled fractures. Ferruginous staining is constrained by sealed microfractures giving the 'paesina' effect. There are minor dendrites of manganese oxides. It is almost certainly from the Cretaceous to Eocene Alberese Formation. |
957 |
Pietra paesina, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Heavily fractured micritic limestone with abundant tiny bioclasts. Ferruginous staining shows typical Liesegang rings, and is constrained by sealed microfractures giving the 'paesina' effect seen best on sides of sample. Dendritic manganese oxides emanate from fractures. It is almost certainly from the Cretaceous to Eocene Alberese Formation. |
690 |
Breccia di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy |
Conglomerate, with igneous clasts showing altered margins, in limestone matrix with well-preserved microfauna. |
74 |
Marmo nero di Torino from the province of Turin, or more probably Portoro from the Porto Venere area, Liguria, Italy. |
Black fine-grained limestone with a few thin yellow/white veins, and with distinctive black (organic matter?) veining. |