Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

| return to catalogue
view of stone 68

Corsi 68, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History

OUMNH Number: 68  
Name and quarry location: ‘Marmo rosso di Taormina’; Taormina in Sicily is very doubtful. Possibly from the Apennines, Italy.  
Geological description: Pink pelagic limestone, most probably from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Tertiary). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres.  
Comments: This is not from Taormina. It is possibly the red/pink variety of litomarga from the Apennines.  
References:  
Further information:
 


Corsi's classification: Class 1. Marbles; Section 1. Monochrome marbles; Species 5. Red marbles  
Corsi's text: 39.8 Rosso di Taormino in Sicilia  

Full entry in English

| return to catalogue
Enter some search terms
Show results as:

search tips

Searches the database for all stone records containing the words you enter. To search for a text string, put it between quotation marks. To search for stone records that don't contain a word, put a minus sign in front of it.

For example, entering: granite "coarse-grained" -Egypt will find all the coarse-grained granites that do not come from Egypt.

Terms of three characters or less have not been indexed.

Funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Oxford University Museum of Natural History University of Oxford