120 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite. A sheared calcite marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures. |
475 |
Cipollino mandolato, perhaps Tarteing, from Tarteing, Esplas de Sérou, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France |
Calcite marble. A metamorphosed nodular limestone, clay matter surrounding the nodules has altered to fine-grained chlorite. A few slender veins have ferruginous infills. |
623 |
Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Brecciated meta-calcilutite with veins of colourless calcite containing metallic yellow pyrite. It retains signs of soft sediment deformation in darker clasts. Some of the brown may be limonitic but most is filler/polishing compound. |
207 |
Breccia de' Gherardeschi, perhaps from Tuscany, Italy |
Limestone. A bio-pel micrite crowded with small intraclasts and shell debris. Anastomosing white material is calcite-replaced scleractinian coral. Note the extensive development of stylolites. |
961 |
Arenaria antica, locality unknown |
Coarse-grained bio calcarenite, with algal, foram, molluscan grains dominant. Matrix is colourless calcite. |
974 |
Quarzo erborizzato dell'Elba, from the island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Calcarenite with some grey shell fragments and grains of a black mineral, perhaps schorl. |
916 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite; a sheared marble with late-stage fractures and solution seams. Dendritic manganese oxides emanate from fractures.
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83 |
'Portasanta', locality unknown |
Pink and grey coarse-grained marble; a metamorphosed limestone breccia with sutured clast boundaries and yellowish stylolites. |
405 |
Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared fine-grained calcite marble breccia. |
406 |
Breccia di Settebasi fiorito, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared breccia of fine-grained calcite marble clasts in a hematitic calcareous matrix. |
420 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Breccia of medium to coarse-grained calcite marble clasts in a darkred marble matrix. |
456 |
Breccia di Cango, from Cango, Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Brecciated marble. |
389 |
Rosso brecciato, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Marble breccia; matrix-supported clasts of coarse-grained grey and finer-grained white marble. Perhaps a metamorphosed debris flow. |
446 |
probably breccia di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy; or breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia: a limestone breccio-conglomerate that has subsequently been metamorphosed. |
495 |
Breccia di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia-conglomerate |
685 |
Breccia delle Alpi, possibly from the Apuan Alps, Italy |
Lithic breccio-conglomerate with mainly siliceous clasts including quartz grains, but some of limestone and marble are also present. It is possibly from the Triassic Verrucano Formation. |
687 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps; or perhaps Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Lithic breccio-conglomerate with clasts of dolomitic marble, schist, and other predominantly metamorphic rocks. |
124 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Breccia-conglomerate of medium-grained white calcite marble clasts in a purple-red hematite-rich calcite matrix. |
123 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Breccia-conglomerate of medium-grained white calcite marble clasts in a purple-red hematite-rich calcite matrix. |
153 |
Bardiglio, from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy; very likely from Carrara, Massa e Carrara. |
Brecciated and veined fine-grained calcite marble, the veins of white calcite are in places iron-stained yellow. |
478 |
Breccia di Sciro, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared polymict marble breccia |
490 |
Breccia di Sarzana, from Sarzana, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy; or perhaps breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia; a metamorphosed polymict limestone breccia with extensive solution seams. |
917 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Sheared marble breccia. |
918 |
Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Sheared breccia of marble clasts. |
119 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Triassic tectonite. A sheared calcite marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures. |
912 |
probably marmo Greco scritto, probably from Capo de Garde, Annaba (Hippo Regius), Algeria. |
A tectonised calcite marble, with fine and medium-grained graphite-rich bands; perhaps originally a marble breccia. |
621 |
Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Brecciated meta-calcilutite, with brown limonitic veining, occasionally widening into calcite-limonite-opaque oxide aggregates. Some of the brown may be filler. |
488 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared marble breccia; perhaps a tectonised burrowed/nodular limestone. |
477 |
Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of calcite marble clasts. |
903 |
Rosso antico brecciato, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Breccia of calcite marble clasts in a hematitic matrix. |
432 |
Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza; or perhaps breccia Medicea, from nearby Stazzema, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite marble breccia. |
975 |
most probably breccia Medici di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine-grained calcite marble breccia; a sheared and metamorphosed limestone breccia. |
479 |
Breccia di Seravezza from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy; or breccia di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared breccia of calcite marble clasts; ferruginous staining gives yellow colouration. |
202 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia - a tectonised, sheared limestone, rich in hematite evident as red colouring and metallic grey grains. |
152 |
Porfido di Sardegna, from Sardinia, Italy |
Calcite marble with scattered large crystals of calcite in a fine-grained groundmass coloured grey by minute grains of ?graphite. Any brown coloration is polishing compound filling cavities where the large grains have fallen out. |
954 |
Fior di pesco Apuano from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia; a sheared and tectonised limestone conglomerate. |
955 |
Fior di pesco Apuano, from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Heavily fractured calcite marble breccia; a sheared and tectonised limestone conglomerate. |
440 |
Corallina di Pisa, from Pisa, Tuscany, Italy |
Breccia of fine-grained calcite marble clasts. |
147 |
Bigio antico, marmor Lesbium, from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece |
A very coarse-grained graphite-bearing calcite marble. |
148 |
Bigio antico, marmor Lesbium, from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece |
A very coarse-grained graphite-bearing calcite marble. |
189 |
Marmo di Candoglia, marmo del Duomo, from Candoglia, Novara, Piedmont, Italy |
Coarse-grained calcite marble with grey tinted 'veins', and with small grains of quartz scattered through it, giving a slightly mottled appearance. |
156 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
A folded sheared limestone breccia, now a calcite marble, some layers with either finely disseminated graphite or sulphide minerals. The grain-size of the calcite ranges from very coarse to fine. |
66 |
'Marmo rosso di Seravezza', possibly from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy but perhaps from Greece. |
Fine-grained hematitic calcite marble |
157 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Deformed fine- to medium-grained calcite marble. Probably originally a breccia, now much stretched and flattened. Note the yellow ferruginous fill to stylolites. |
159 |
Carrara ordinario, from the Apuan Alps, and probably Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine to medium-grained calcite marble speckled with crystals and grains of other minerals including the iron sulphide, pyrite. |
35 |
Giallo di Siena, Siena yellow, from Siena, Italy; most probably from the quarries at Monte Arrenti near Sovicille. |
Very fine-grained calcite marble or heavily altered limestone tinted yellow by secondary iron minerals. |
154 |
Bardiglio, from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy; very likely from Carrara, Massa e Carrara. |
Fine-grained calcite marble with stylolites still clearly evident. The white areas are coarser-grained calcite. |
89 |
Cipollino verde, from near Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Folded medium-grained calcite marble with layers rich in green iron-bearing silicate minerals including chlorite and epidote. |
99 |
Marmo Greco scritto from Capo de Garde, Annaba (Hippo Regius), Algeria |
A deformed, medium to coarse-grained calcite marble. A tectonite showing linear shear fabric. The dark grey graphite-rich zones result from the deformation of a breccia or vein system rather than a colour-banded rock. |
100 |
Marmo Greco scritto from Capo de Garde, Annaba (Hippo Regius), Algeria |
A deformed medium to coarse-grained calcite marble. A tectonite showing linear shear fabric. The banding is more continuous than in Corsi no.99. |
90 |
Cipollino verde, from near Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Folded medium-grained calcite marble with layers rich in green iron-bearing silicate minerals including chlorite and epidote. |
51 |
Marmo carnagione, ‘rosetta di Bergamo’; the province of Bergamo, Italy, is not confirmed as the locality. |
Medium-grained white calcite marble. A metamorphosed sparite limestone preserving evidence of burrowing. It is almost white; the pink tint comes from discoloured grain-filler. |
98 |
Perhaps Campan vert from Espiadet, Campan valley, Haute Pyrénées, France, but it may be cipollino Apuano from Alta Versilia, Tuscany, Italy; or another cipollino |
Impure altered limestone or calcite marble with convoluted white calcite ‘veins’; sheared, with anastomising cream-coloured shear bands. The green coloration is predominantly green-grey granular to prismatic diopside/actinolite. |
36 |
Giallo di Siena, Siena yellow, from Siena, Italy; most probably from the quarries at Monte Arrenti near Sovicille. |
Very fine-grained calcite marble or heavily altered limestone tinted yellow by secondary iron minerals. |
902 |
Probably giallo antico from Chemtou, Tunisia, but possibly Giallo di Siena, Siena yellow from Monte Arrenti near Sovicille, Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
Very fine-grained calcite marble. A fractured, stylolitised, metamorphosed fossiliferous biomicrite limestone. Veins and voids are calcite-filled, and there are abundant small black manganese oxide dendrites. |
95 |
Cipollino rosso, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
Fine to medium-grained folded impure limestone or calcite marble, some bands rich in red hematite. |
97 |
Cipollino rosso, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey |
A fine to medium-grained folded banded calcite marble, some bands rich in red hematite, others are coloured by grey graphite. A weakly metamorphosed impure limestone. |
901 |
Marmo salino dell'Elba, from the island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Fairly coarse-grained calcite marble; bands of sulphide/oxide impurities evident on side of specimen. |
416 |
Probably breccia di Sciro from Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
A nodular or conglomeratic limestone, sheared and metamorphosed to a marble breccia, with extensive clay-rich hematitic matrix and deformed calcite veins. Note extensive late-stage solution seamed stylolite development. |
61 |
Rosso antico, from Akra Tainaron (Cape Matapan), Mani peninsula, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece |
A fine-grained hematite-stained calcite marble of late Cretaceous to Eocene age. Slender black veins are evident, and trace manganese contributes to the red colouring. |
62 |
Rosso antico, from Akra Tainaron (Cape Matapan), Mani peninsula, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece |
A fine-grained hematite-stained calcite marble of late Cretaceous to Eocene age. Slender black veins are evident, and trace manganese contributes to the red colouring. |
142 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
Very coarse-grained marble with rounded white clasts and net-veined graphitic matrix. |
143 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
A very coarse-grained marble with graphite-rich net-veining. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound. |
145 |
Bigio antico, probably marmor Lesbium, most probably from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece |
Mylonitic marble. A coarse-grained lineated marble with patchy graphitic net-veins. |
972 |
Pudingo delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Polymict conglomerate with sandstone matrix, clasts: limestone, marble? rock. Fragments possibly volcanic? Some chalcedony. Scattered bivalves and gastropods in the matrix - ?marine |
144 |
Cipollino nero, most probably from Mili, Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Banded marble (metamorphosed impure limestone). Fine-grained grey layers have a shape fabric calcite which appears axial-planar to folded layering. Fabric is probably a lineation, although, on specimen edge, the grains are equant. |
151 |
Bardiglio fiorito, from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy |
Tectonite of fine- to medium-grained white or grey calcite marble fragments in black graphite-rich marble; crushed and folded. |
160 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Fine to medium-grained marble with variable traces of graphite/sulphide minerals and showing some lamination and folding. |
71 |
Nero antico from Jebel Aziza, Tunisia |
Very fine-grained black marble with intersecting shear fractures and white calcite/pyrite-filled extension veinlets. |
149 |
Bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Sheared reticulated mass of fine-grained buff-coloured, and medium-grained, white calcite marble, grey graphite-rich in places. |
146 |
Bigio antico, locality unknown |
A generally fine-grained marble with extensive development of microveins, alteration along some microveins affecting grain-size and colour. Note brown is filler/polishing compound. |
491 |
Breccia di Sarzana, from Sarzana, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy; or perhaps breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia with calcite filled fractures. |
429 |
Corallina di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy |
Marble breccia, medium-grained calcite marble clasts in a granular ferruginous calcite matrix. It is heavily fractured, the fractures filled with calcite. |
566 |
Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece |
Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, a few of marble; extensive scattered crystals of oxide minerals, in a serpentine and calcite matrix. Heavily fractured, many fractures are filled with cross-fibres of chrysotile serpentine. |
703 |
Lapis lazuli, from Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan |
Rock composed of lazurite, probably with minor blue sodalite, and with flecks of pyrite and minor white calcite; from a marble deposit formed by contact metamorphism. |
947 |
Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
Sheared limestone conglomerate, metamorphosed to marble. |
184 |
Marmo bianco dell'Alpi from the Alps |
Medium-grained dolomite marble, very heavily fractured, the fractures infilled with transparent calcite with brown ferruginous tinting. |
139 |
Bigio antico, bigio morato, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Graphitic medium-grained marble with abundant stylolites, showing relics perhaps of crinoidal debris? Specimen is waxed and polished. |
949 |
Breccia Medicea or 'Africano', from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy |
Tectonised polymict breccia-conglomerate of limestone and marble clasts with solution-modified clast contacts. |
417 |
Breccia pavonazza, locality unknown |
Polymict limestone/marble breccia-conglomerate with red, calcareous mudstone/lateritic matrix, and stylolites. Some residual fossils appear to be present. |
910 |
perhaps breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey |
Heavily sheared and recrystallised limestone breccia, almost entirely altered to fine-grained marble. |
451 |
Breccia di Lugano, from Lake Lugano, Varese, Lombardy, Italy |
Slumped (or sheared) limestone/marble breccia, with red and metallic grey hematite, and flecks of green chlorite and yellow-brown goethite. |
258 |
Lumachella degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy |
Poorly sorted conglomerate with limestone and marble clasts together with scattered calcareous algal nodules and bivalves (oysters). |
688 |
Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps |
Polymict conglomerate with clasts of quartz, chert and silicified limestone. There is extensive intergrowth suturing about some marble/limestone clasts. |
137 |
Marmo bianco e giallo, breccia nuvolata, locality unknown. |
A fractured, stylolitised recrystallised limestone or marble, with Liesegang rings of ferruginous colouring. |
963 |
Serpentina di Santa Caterina, from Santa Caterina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Serpentinite, finely brecciated and veined with calcite. |
594 |
Serpentina verde di Genova, from Genoa, Liguria, Italy |
Brecciated serpentinite. Broken clasts of pale green serpentine, platey 'striped' dark green serpentine and brown/white marble in a matrix of brown and white calcite. |
569 |
Serpentina verde di Varallo, from Varallo, Novara, Piedmont, Italy |
Brecciated serpentinite-marble with light to dark green fragmented serpentinite clasts in fine-grained marble and vein calcite matrix. Serpentinite has local concentrations of fine-grained oxide mineral. |
969 |
Breccia verde d'Egitto, breccia universale, from Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert, Egypt |
Metaconglomerate of metamorphic and igneous clasts (pink granite, banded tuff, serpentinite etc) in an epidotised matrix containing chlorite and abundant quartz grains. Cf no.679. |
575 |
Serpentina di Valsabbia, from Valsabbia, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, a few of marble. |
962 |
Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece |
Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, and a few of marble. |
565 |
Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece |
A breccia of serpentinite, schistose calc-silicate and crystalline marble clasts in a lime-green serpentinite matrix. |
92 |
Cipollino Apuano, from Alta Versilia, Tuscany, Italy |
Strongly sheared marble. Banding of cream (iron-stained calcite) and green-grey (granular calcite with patchy chlorite/talc) portions at low angle to shear planes, results in tight folding of bands. |
431 |
Breccia pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey |
Marble breccia; a heavily stylolitised, metamorphosed polymict limestone conglomerate, probably resedimented. |
121 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
A slumped/sheared breccia of Triassic age, with clasts of laminated marble, cut by calcite-filled fractures and late-stage stylolites. |
118 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
A marble tectonite of Triassic age. A sheared, deformed calcite marble breccia. |
122 |
Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece |
Hematite-rich calcite marble, brecciated, with white calcite-filled veins. Triassic age. |
622 |
Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Brecciated meta-calcilutite with a few spherical two-phase calcite-filled cavities, and with limonitised siliceous veining. Note brown crystals of ?siderite filling cavities on underside of specimen. |
91 |
perhaps bardiglio, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy; or cipollino, from Carystos, Euboea, Central Greece |
Fine-grained carbonate mylonite, a heavily sheared carbonate rock. The slab face is cut parallel to the dextral movement direction. |
941 |
Pietra perlea di Trento, from Trent, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy |
Massive coarsely crystalline calcite with iridescence off incipient cleavages. Reddish brown in places, ferruginous matter coating some incipient cleavage planes. |