351 |
'Alabastro bianco d'Orte', probably Egyptian alabaster,
Coarse to very coarse compact crystalline calcite, with a little banding suggesting this is a travertine. |
|
364 |
'Alabastro di Sarzana', locality unknown; not thought to be from Sarzana. |
Banded compact travertine composed of medium-grained granular/prismatic calcite; some bands are orange, ferruginous. Dark brown is filler or polishing compound. |
352 |
'Alabastro dorato d'Orte', locality unknown |
Coarse to very coarse nearly transparent granular calcite, perhaps a hydrothermal vein deposit rather than a travertine. Some grey micritic limestone matrix is present which contains white grains probably of algae. |
309 |
'Alabastro fiorito', alabastro melleo, locality unknown |
Compact very finely banded calcite travertine. Some bands have brown ferruginous colouring. |
305 |
'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown |
Compact finely banded travertine composed of calcite, with abundant fractures perpendicular to the banding. |
306 |
'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown |
Compact finely banded travertine composed of calcite, some bands orange, ferruginous. |
307 |
'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown |
Compact medium- to fine grained banded travertine with some ferruginous staining. |
308 |
'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown |
Compact finely banded calcite travertine. A hot spring deposit with some bands containing dendritic iron oxides, probably the result of cyanobacterial activity. |
310 |
'Alabastro fiorito', locality unknown |
Compact very fine to fine-grained banded calcite travertine. |
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). |
370 |
Alabastra di Monte Alcino, from Montalcino, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
A reddish brown very coarsely crystalline banded calcite travertine with ferruginous inclusions running parallel or perpendicular to banding. |
321 |
Alabastro a giaccione, locality unknown |
Compact finely banded travertine composed of calcite, some bands with ferruginous inclusions. Note the extensive fracturing perpendicular to the banding. |
322 |
Alabastro a giaccione, locality unknown |
Compact finely banded travertine composed of coarsely crystalline brown calcite coating a fossiliferous limestone. Note the abundant fractures. |
320 |
Alabastro a giaccione, perhaps alabastro di Montalcino from Montalcino, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of very coarsely crystalline calcite. Ferruginous inclusions run parallel to the banding. |
324 |
Alabastro a nuvole, locality unknown |
Medium to coarse-grained compact banded travertine with ferruginous orange and, in a few places, red colouring. |
303 |
Alabastro a occhi, locality unknown |
Brecciated fine-grained compact banded travertine, with acicular and granular bands of calcite, some dark orange-brown coloured. |
927 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria, or perhaps alabastro ciliegino, locality unknown. |
Compact banded travertine composed of white fine-grained calcite, with coarse-grained areas patchily rich in iron oxides, mainly hematite. |
326 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with rich bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly brown goethite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water. |
327 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with rich bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water. |
328 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water. |
329 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine now at least partially recrystallised. The dendritic development of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, is most probably the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water. |
330 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
This appears to be a recrystallised brecciated compact banded travertine, composed of medium and coarse-grained granular calcite. It is coloured red by disseminated hematite. |
331 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
A recrystallised compact banded travertine composed of medium and coarse-grained granular calcite but retaining bushy developments of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite. |
332 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed of finely fibrous calcite almost entirely coloured red by hematite. |
923 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite heavily tinted red by hematite. |
924 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite almost entirely coloured red by hematite, the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water. |
926 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Recrystallised compact banded travertine, composed of mainly granular ferruginous calcite. |
929 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded travertine composed of coarse-grained calcite, some bands are rich in iron oxides, dendritic growth most evident on the sides of the sample. |
932 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Very ferruginous compact banded calcite travertine. |
934 |
Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. |
Compact banded calcite travertine coloured by iron oxide, with dendritic growths of manganese oxides. |
314 |
Alabastro a rosa, alabastro fiorito, locality unknown |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite, in some bands as colourless prismatic crystals. It is richly coloured by iron oxides - red hematite and brown goethite, in places clearly bushy growths suggesting the action of cyanobacteria. |
315 |
Alabastro a rosa, alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite, in some bands as colourless prismatic crystals. It is richly coloured by iron oxides - red hematite and brown goethite, in places clearly bushy growths suggesting the action of cyanobacteria. |
928 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy |
Compact travertine composed of fine acicular calcite crystals. |
354 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Banded compact travertine, the very fine acicular calcite crystals giving a particularly compact structure. Note white 'fractures' appear to be strings of minute gas inclusions. |
355 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Banded compact travertine, composed of very fine acicular calcite crystals. Note white 'fractures' appear to be strings of minute gas inclusions. |
356 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Banded compact travertine, composed of very fine acicular calcite crystals. Note white 'fractures' appear to be strings of minute gas inclusions. |
357 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Very finely banded compact calcite travertine. |
358 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Compact travertine composed of fine acicular calcite crystals. |
940 |
Alabastro a tartaruga, from Montauto, Castelfiorentino, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy or perhaps Iano di Montaione, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
Compact travertine composed of very fine acicular calcite crystals. |
935 |
Alabastro antico, alabastro verde, locality unknown |
Compact travertine composed of coarse-grained calcite. |
931 |
Alabastro antico, locality unknown |
Compact banded calcite travertine, heavily contaminated with grains of the host limestone. |
936 |
Alabastro antico, locality unknown |
Limestone breccia. Calcite travertine clasts, and a few gastropod shells, in a micritic (peloidal in places) matrix. |
937 |
Alabastro antico, locality unknown |
Compact finely banded calcite travertine, wide paler coloured bands have a more porous texture and contain trapped filler. |
345 |
Alabastro bianco di Collepardo, from Collepardo, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy |
Banded compact travertine composed of exceptionally coarse-grained columnar calcite. |
333 |
Alabastro ciliegino, locality unknown |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite. Iron oxides trapped within the botryoidal structure of the calcite give the distinctive appearance. |
925 |
Alabastro ciliegino, locality unknown |
Compact banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained calcite, with some bands particularly rich in included red hematite. Light brown areas are wax filler. |
387 |
Alabastro de'Bagni di S. Filippo, from Bagni San Filippo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Compact banded calcite travertine of very finely fibrous calcite. |
388 |
Alabastro de'Bagni di S. Filippo, from Bagni San Filippo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Compact banded calcite travertine; fluoresces yellow-white under longwave uv radiation. |
361 |
Alabastro di Breschia, from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Compact travertine composed of bands of finely fibrous and fine-grained calcite. |
359 |
Alabastro di Busca, from Busca, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy |
Banded compact calcite travertine. Note bands of granular white calcite. Specimen has a particularly high polish. |
360 |
Alabastro di Busca, from Busca, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy |
Banded compact calcite travertine. Note bands of granular white calcite. |
350 |
Alabastro di Camerino, from Camerino, Ancona, Marches, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of very coarse, transparent, to very fine, translucent calcite. |
371 |
Alabastro di Civitavecchia, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Breccia of travertine clasts, peloids, algal debris and fine-grained ferruginous detritus in a sparite matrix . |
369 |
Alabastro di Collepardo, alabastro ghiaccione, from Collepardo, near Frosinone; or from Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
Very pure compact banded travertine composed of parallel prismatic colourless calcite crystals. A speleothem deposit. |
340 |
Alabastro di Mizzole, gioia di Mizzole, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of coarse-grained calcite. |
362 |
Alabastro di Napoli, from Naples, Campania, Italy; or perhaps alabastro di Busca, from Busca, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy |
Banded compact coarse-grained travertine, with bands of white granular calcite. |
339 |
Alabastro di Palermo, from Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Coarse-grained calcite travertine deposit on a bioclastic limestone. Matrix is a calc-rudite-limestone conglomerate dominated by large benthic forams and limestone intraclasts of calcareous algae. Note the stylolites. |
938 |
Alabastro di Palestrina, from Palestrina, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of acicular calcite crystals, with a ferruginous micritic infill between grains. Cavities in the surface are filled with brown wax, intensifying the colour a little. |
311 |
Alabastro di Palombara, possibly from Iano di Montaione, Siena, Tuscany, Italy, but more probably Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey |
Compact finely banded travertine composed mainly of fine-grained rather opaque white calcite. Bushy dendritic growths of brown iron oxides result from cyanobacterial activity. |
347 |
Alabastro di Perugia; Perugia, Umbria, Italy, may not be correct. |
Very compact banded travertine composed of finely acicular/granular calcite crystals. Yellow areas are artificial filler. |
349 |
Alabastro di Pierosara, from Pierosara, near Fabriano, Ancona, Marches, Italy |
Compact travertine composed of coarse columnar calcite. |
367 |
Alabastro di S. Felicita, from Santa Felicita, Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of medium to coarse-grained columnar calcite crystals |
939 |
Alabastro di S. Felicita, from Santa Felicita, Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
A very coarse-grained compact banded calcite travertine, of a pale golden yellow colour. |
374 |
Alabastro di Sabina, Alabastro ghiaccione, from Sabina, or from Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
Very pure banded calcite travertine composed of very coarse granular colourless crystals and fine grained white calcite, banding evident in a few places. It is almost certainly a speleothem. |
335 |
Alabastro di Sestri, from Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Liguria, Italy |
Iron-stained impure tufa with coatings of banded compact travertine composed of very fine fibrous crystals of calcite. |
538 |
Alabastro di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Banded yellow calcite, probably a compact banded travertine. |
348 |
Alabastro di Siena; Siena, Tuscany, Italy, may not be correct. |
Very compact banded travertine composed of finely acicular/granular calcite crystals. Yellow areas are artificial filler. |
363 |
Alabastro di Torrita, perhaps from either Torrita Tiberina, Roma, Lazio, Italy or Torrita di Siena, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Banded compact travertine of very fine fibrous calcite, flesh pink on sides of specimen. |
365 |
Alabastro di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy; or perhaps travertino di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy |
Banded travertine, ferruginous bushy growths are the result of cyanobacterial growth in the hot water. Banding and abundant cavities are clearly visible on the sides of the sample. |
353 |
Alabastro eburneo d'Orte from Orte, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy |
A compact, fine-grained and finely banded, pure calcite travertine. |
316 |
Alabastro fiorito, almost certainly from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey |
Medium-grained compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite, in some bands as colourless prismatic crystals. It is coloured by iron oxides, the bushy dendritic growths probably generated by cyanobacterial action. |
317 |
Alabastro fiorito, from Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey |
Medium-grained compact banded travertine composed mainly of calcite. It is coloured by iron oxides, the bushy dendritic growths probably generated by cyanobacterial action. |
301 |
Alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey |
Compact banded travertine, brecciated in places, composed of fine- to medium-grained calcite with some orange-brown ferruginous bands. Abundant cavities contain greyish brown wax filler. |
318 |
Alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey |
Compact banded travertine composed of coarse acicular to granular calcite. The sides of the specimen show the banding clearly. |
930 |
Alabastro fortezzino, probably from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Fine-grained compact travertine with some slender orange bands, hosted in a nummulitic limestone. |
304 |
Alabastro ghiaccione, from Capo Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of parallel columnar colourless crystals of calcite interbanded with fine grained white calcite. |
343 |
Alabastro gioia del ponte di Vezia, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Compact travertine composed of very coarse columnar calcite. The surface has a particularly waxy surface indicating it may have been acid-etched. |
319 |
Alabastro sardonico, locality unknown |
Compact banded travertine composed of coarsely crystalline calcite coloured red by hematite, adjoining or interbanded with colourless very coarsely crystalline calcite. |
344 |
Alabastro scuro di Collepardo, from Collepardo, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy |
Banded compact travertine composed of very fine-grained, grading to coarse-grained, columnar calcite. |
302 |
Alabastro, cotognino a onde, locality not known. Perhaps from Hatnub, Mallawi, or another location in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Compact banded travertine cut parallel to the banding, composed of medium-grained columnar/granular calcite, with a few scattered aggregates of acicular goethite or manganese oxide crystals. Some of the sparry limestone host rock is present. Grey patches contain clay and other debris. Small pink area is filler. |
441 |
Breccia del lago di Como, from Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy |
Peloidal limestone breccia. The matrix is pale brown transparent calcite, as compact banded travertine in places. Note extensive brown filler/polishing compound. |
691 |
Breccia di Torrita, from Torrita Tiberina, near Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Polymict conglomerate of limestone pebbles, bordering on compact calcite travertine. The cement is calcarenite. There is extensive brown filler. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
312 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Fine to medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; note presence of slender orange ferruginous bands which are quite characteristic of the Egyptian stone. |
313 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Fine to medium-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; note presence of slender orange ferruginous bands which are quite characteristic of the Egyptian stone. |
323 |
Egyptian alabaster, alabastro cotognino, from one of several quarries at Hatnub, Mallawi, and other locations in the Nile valley, Eastern desert, Egypt. |
Fairly coarse-grained compact banded travertine, almost entirely composed of calcite; the slender orange ferruginous bands are often seen in the alabaster of the Nile valley. |
325 |
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; pure calcite apart from a few slender orange ferruginous bands. |
180 |
Marmo palombino di Sestri, from Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Liguria, Italy |
Limestone; a pel-sparite with what look like birds-eyes, and with scattered molluscan and algal debris. One corner of the specimen has compact banded travertine. |
341 |
marmo rosa dell' Alcenago, from Alsenaso, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Not ‘alabaster’. A fine-grained calcarenite limestone. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
382 |
Tartaro di Terni, alabastro di Terni, from Terni, Umbria, Italy |
Compact banded travertine composed of fibrous to very finely acicular calcite crystals, perhaps originally aragonite. |