OUMNH Number: | 392 |
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Name and quarry location: | Spanish broccatello, from Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain |
Geological description: | Burrowed fossiliferous limestone with large bivalves.The original calcitic shell layers are preserved in some places, elsewhere, sparry calcite infills voids left by desolution of aragonite shells. |
Comments: | Broccatello, broccatello antico (the Marmor Schiston of the ancients), from Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. As no. 390 above. |
References: | Antonelli (2002b) 273-274; Borghini (1997) 198; Corsi (1845) 115-116; Dubarry de Lassale (2000) 162-163; Falcone (1998); Lee (1888) 75; Mielsch (1985) 42-43, taf.5-6; Price (2007) 164-165; Watson (1916) 226-228 |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 5. Breccias; i. Antique Breccias |
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Corsi's text: | 110.4 altro broccatello [Broccatello antico. Marmor Schiston... si trova presso Tortosa nella Catalogna] |