Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

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Corsi 753, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History

OUMNH Number: 753  
Name and quarry location: Diaspro delle Alpi, from the Alps  
Geological description: Green/brown banded jasper; a siliciified limestone or ironstone showing some recognisable tests of microfossils. It is crossed by many slender fractures filled with colourless quartz. Some stylolites and fractures are present. Chlorite inclusions colour the darkest bands.  
Comments: Nos. 751-753 all have bevelled edges, suggesting they came to Corsi from the same source. In microscopic detail this is more like no. 743.  
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Corsi's classification: Class 14. Quartz and its varieties; Species 6. Jasper; ii. Italian jaspers  
Corsi's text: 187.6 Diaspro delle Alpi  

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