Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

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OUMNH number Name and quarry location Geological description
OUMNH number Name and quarry location Geological description
101stone 101 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts in a chlorite-bearing greenish matrix. It has calcite-filled veins, and crinoids and other fossil debris within the clasts.
102stone 102 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone and green Fe-silicate bearing clasts in a variably iron-stained micritic matrix .
103stone 103 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone and limestone breccia clasts in a green chlorite/epidote-rich matrix, but with some characteristic black matrix also evident.
104stone 104 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate; this specimen is cut almost entirely from a single pink somewhat fractured clast which has abundant stylolites. Small areas of black matrix are evident.
105stone 105 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a black matrix.
106stone 106 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts in a green chlorite-rich matrix.
107stone 107 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts in a black matrix. This specimen is crossed by white quartz veins.
108stone 108 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts in a green chlorite-rich matrix.
109stone 109 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted mixed limestone clasts, some green and chlorite-rich, in a grey matrix.
110stone 110 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted limestone clasts, with stylolites and calcite-filled fractures
111stone 111 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia with abundant crinoid and other fossil debris, in a dark grey matrix. The specimen is crossed by a white calcite vein.
112stone 112 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts which have been partially oxidised.
113stone 113 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted chlorite-rich limestone clasts, some with stylotised clast boundaries.
114stone 114 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts. Note stylolites.
115stone 115 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia of pink somewhat fractured clasts in a black matrix. Note the calcite-filled vein following the clast margin.
116stone 116 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia with abundant crinoid and other fossil debris, in a dark grey, partly oxidised to brown, matrix.
117stone 117 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a chlorite-rich matrix crossed by stylolites.
118stone 118 Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece A marble tectonite of Triassic age. A sheared, deformed calcite marble breccia.
119stone 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.
120stone 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.
121stone 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.
122stone 122 Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece Hematite-rich calcite marble, brecciated, with white calcite-filled veins. Triassic age.
123stone 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.
124stone 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.
125stone 125 Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France Breccia of almost black limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix.
126stone 126 Petit antique, from area around Hèche and Hèchettes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France Breccia of black and grey limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix.
127stone 127 'Marmo bianco e nero d'Egitto', locality unknown Black fine-grained limestone with en echelon veins of white fibrous calcite, and with stylolites.
128stone 128 Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France Breccia of grey limestone clasts in a compact white granular calcite matrix.
129stone 129 Bianco e nero di Portoferraio, from Portoferraio, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy Black limestone breccia with white calcite-filled veins and fractures, some en echelon and fibrous in places. Abundant stylolites and thin fractures are filled with yellow siderite.
130stone 130 Bianco e nero di Monte Pulciano, possibly from Montepulciano, Siena, Tuscany, Italy (see notes) Black limestone with white calcite-filled fractures and abundant stylolites. Stylolites and thin fractures contain yellow siderite.
131stone 131 most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy Black weakly metamorphosed fine-grained limestone with at least two generations of veining the first of white calcite and the second of yellow calcite coloured by goethite (iron hydroxide).
132stone 132 most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy Finely brecciated weakly metamorphosed fine-grained limestone with veins of saccharoidal to fibrous calcite; some veins and stylolites coloured yellow by included goethite.
133stone 133 Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy Black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, and with stylolites, sinuous wider veins and pods of calcite coloured yellow by included goethite.
134stone 134 Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy Breccia of black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, in a matrix of granular calcite coloured yellow by included goethite. Yellow stylolites are also prominent.
135stone 135 Portoro, from Portovenere, Liguria, Italy Black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone with thin white calcite-filled veins, and with stylolites, and a few sinuous wider veins of calcite coloured yellow by included goethite.
136stone 136 most probably giallo e nero di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy Very poorly sorted breccia of black fine-grained weakly metamorphosed limestone in a white calcareous matrix; most of the stone is one larger clast which is crossed with white and ferruginous yellow veins. Note the yellow stylolites and stylolitic clast boundary.
137stone 137 Marmo bianco e giallo, breccia nuvolata, locality unknown. A fractured, stylolitised recrystallised limestone or marble, with Liesegang rings of ferruginous colouring.
138stone 138 Giallo tigrato, from Monte Calvo, Rieti, Lazio, Italy Fine-grained calcite with spar-filled stylolites, fractures and cavities, and with extensive development of dendritic black iron/manganese oxides.
139stone 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.
140stone 140 Bigio antico, bigio morato, possibly from the Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece Partially recrystallised fine-grained limestone. Relics of corals/crinoids/bivalves are preserved. Note a few spar-filled fractures and stylolites.
141stone 141 Bigio antico, bigio morato, locality unknown Grey-brown bioturbated limestone with a few mollusc fragments. Note white coarse-grained spar-filled cavities and fractures, and abundant stylolites. The surface is waxed and polished.
142stone 142 Bigio antico, locality unknown Very coarse-grained marble with rounded white clasts and net-veined graphitic matrix.
143stone 143 Bigio antico, locality unknown A very coarse-grained marble with graphite-rich net-veining. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound.
144stone 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.
145stone 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.
146stone 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.
147stone 147 Bigio antico, marmor Lesbium, from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece A very coarse-grained graphite-bearing calcite marble.
148stone 148 Bigio antico, marmor Lesbium, from Moria, Island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece A very coarse-grained graphite-bearing calcite marble.
149stone 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.
150stone 150 Marmo cenerino di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy Largely recrystallised limestone with relict larger benthic forams (alveolines). It is heavily styolitised.
151stone 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.
152stone 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.
153stone 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.
154stone 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.
155stone 155 Marmo fiorito di Casale, perhaps Lumachella di San Vitale, from Casale, Verona, Veneto, Italy Heavily recrystallised limestone with relict bivalves and other rather obscure traces of fossils.
156stone 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.
157stone 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.
158stone 158 Marmo mischio di Monte Bolca, from Monte Bolca, Val d'Illasi, Verona, Veneto, Italy Heavily recrystallised foraminiferous limestone. Large benthic forams are visible on the side of specimen.
159stone 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.
160stone 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.
161stone 161 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Gibellina Vecchia, Trapani, Sicily, Italy Recrystallised limestone; originally probably a noular micrite/microspar, voids filled by sparry calcite. Buff-coloured area are filler.
162stone 162 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, Sicily, Italy Syn-sedimentary breccia with fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestone (dark) and pink Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone.
163stone 163 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Capo Gallo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Syn-sedimentary breccia with fragments of Triassic-Jurassic limestone (dark) and pink Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone.
164stone 164 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Bisaquino, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Slumped green pelagic limestone with perhaps submarine cement infills of neptunian dykes. Note stylolites. Less fractures than the similar specimen no.171.
165stone 165 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Castronuovo di Sicilia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Limestone, perhaps resedimented; micrite/microsparite crowded with tiny bio/intraclasts and showing traces of grading in places. Note extensive solution seams, stylolites and calcite-filled fractures.
166stone 166 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Feudo Lalia, Alia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Heavily fractured stylolitised birds-eye limestone with extensive fenestral fabric (calcite-filled vugs). Matrix is fossiliferous peloidal micrite/microspar.
167stone 167 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Synsedimentary limestone breccia.
168stone 168 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Fine-grained red limestone with synsedimentary slump folds.
169stone 169 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Re-sedimented limestone of the Rosso Ammonitico Formation. It is heavily stylolitised, and the colour is diagenetic.
170stone 170 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from River Verdura or Sosio, perhaps at San Carlo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Limestone breccia. A syn-sedimentary breccia with matrix of pink Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone.
171stone 171 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Sicily, Italy; perhaps Cefalù area This appears to be submarine cement infills of neptunian dykes in a pelagic green limestone. It is heavily fractured.
172stone 172 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Limestone. Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia cut by a neptunian dyke.
173stone 173 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Castellammare, Trapani, Sicily, Italy Bioturbated limestone, most probably of the Cretaceous-Eocene Scaglia Rossa Formation. It is a fossiliferous pelagic biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres together with some molluscan debris. Note the calcite-filled fractures.
174stone 174 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Syn-sedimentary slump breccia with voids infilled by submarine cement. Note pervasive calcite-filled fractures.
175stone 175 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Tertiary limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous pelagic biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams and calcispheres, with some molluscan debris. Note calcite-filled fractures.
176stone 176 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Rocca delli Panni, Sicily, Italy Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia with voids filled by submarine cement.
177stone 177 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Slumped syn-sedimentary limestone breccia.
178stone 178 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy A fractured Rosso ammonitico red limestone with prominent stromatactis cavities filled with grey and white calcite. It has stylolites and white calcite-filled veins.
179stone 179 Rosso di Malcesine, from Malcesine, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone. A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres. It has extensive development of orange-red stylolites.
180stone 180 Marmo palombino di Sestri, from Sestri Ponente, Genoa, Liguria, Italy Limestone; a pel-sparite with what look like birds-eyes, and with scattered molluscan and algal debris. One corner of the specimen has compact banded travertine.
181stone 181 Nembro di San Giorgio, from Verona, Veneto, Italy; but San Giorgio is doubtful. Peloidal/intraclastic limestone with fine grained micrite/microspar matrix, and with pervasive solution-seams.
182stone 182 Rosa corallo, from Verona, Veneto, Italy; Torri del Benaco is doubtful. Limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Eocene). A fossiliferous biomicrite with abundant tiny bioclasts and large intraclasts floating in matrix, probably a debris flow. Note the conspicuous stylolites.
183stone 183 Marmo rosso di sant'Eligio, from Sant'Eligio, Verona, Veneto, Italy Nodular Jurassic-Cretaceous pelagic limestone, the colour leached along fractures and stylolites, which are spar-filled in places. Contains ammonites and a few patchy areas rich in other fossil debris.
184stone 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.
185stone 185 Ceppo scuro del lago di Como, from Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy Fine grained calcarenite with some primary lamination and signs of soft sediment deformation.
186stone 186 Rosso di Caprino Veronese, from Caprino Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone, probably of Cretaceous-Tertiary age; a burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains. Note the extersitu stylolite development.
187stone 187 Cottanello, from Cottanello, Rieti, Lazio, Italy Cretaceous-Eocene pelagic limestone. A brecciated biomicrite with abundant planktonic forams and calcispheres. Calcite-filled fractures and voids are cut by late stage red clay-filled stylolites.
188stone 188 Rosso venato di Terni, marmo carnagione, from the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy Marly limestone; a Cretaceous-Eocene pelagic limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation, the colouring constrained by microfractures to give a 'ruin marble' effect. It is mottled with the shells of planktonic microfossils, and it has prominent stylolites and en echelon sets of white calcite-filled fractures.
189stone 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.
190stone 190 Marmo giallo di Saltrio, from Saltrio, Milan, Lombardy, Italy Recrystallised limestone or marble, with calcite-filled fractures, and with ferruginous orange stylolites.
191stone 191 Nembro di Monta Baldo, from Monte Baldo, Verona, Veneto, Italy Limestone; a fossiliferous burrowed peloidal biosparite.
192stone 192 Rosso della Corona, probably from Monte Corona, near Umbertide, Perugia, Umbria, Italy Limestone from the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Cretaceous-Eocene). A bioturbated fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with planktonic forams. Note the salmon-pink stylolites.
193stone 193 Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece Fine-grained compact limestone breccia with stylolites and stylolitic clast boundaries. Some relic shell fragments are evident. Fractures are filled with white calcite.
194stone 194 Marmo della Gaetta, from Gaetta, Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy Heavily recrystallised and fractured ?calcarenite, with disseminated pyrite on fractures.
195stone 195 Mandolato di Torbe, from Torbe, Verona, Veneto, Italy Pelagic limestone. Burrowed nodular biomicrite crowded with skeletal grains, and with extersitu stylolite development. Dark brown is filler/polishing compound.
196stone 196 Fior di persico, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Marble; a tectonised and sheared limestone breccia-conglomerate.
197stone 197 Rosso del Ticino, from Ticino, Lombardy, Italy Ferruginous micaceous calcarenite.
198stone 198 Occhiadina di Bergamo, from Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy Birds-eye limestone; probably originally a peloidal micrite.
199stone 199 Corso della mola di S.Ambrogio, from the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy; but probably not from Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella Limestone; a fossiliferous biomicrite crowded with bioclasts including planktonic forams. It is heavily stylolitised.
200stone 200 Mandolato di Carteletto, from the area north of Verona, perhaps Castelletto di Brenzone, Verona, Veneto, Italy; or from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy Fossiliferous burrowed biomicrite limestone crowded with bioclasts, spar-filled bivalve and gastropod shells. Colour mottling is diagenetic.
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