OUMNH Number: | 735 |
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Name and quarry location: | Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Adrano, from Adriano, Sicily, Italy |
Geological description: | Brecciated yellow jasper, clasts heavily fractured, fracture-fill and matrix are greyish white chalcedony stained yellowish away from clasts. Brown patches on specimen are filler, generally in crystalline quartz-lined cavities. |
Comments: | Perhaps from either Palazzo Adriano, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy mentioned for jasper by Jervis (1881, 1889), from the nearby Feudo Adriano; or from Adrana in Catania both mentioned by Montana (1998). Tata (1772) has two samples from 'Adriano'. |
References: | Jervis (1881) 223, 225; Jervis (1889) 459; Montana & Briuccia (1998) 33; Price (2007) 246-247; Schmidt (2002); Tata (1772) 23-24, 29 |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 14. Quartz and its varieties; Species 5. Agate |
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Corsi's text: | 184.13 Agata di Adriano in Sicilia |