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
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.
475stone 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.
623stone 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.
207stone 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.
83stone 83 'Portasanta', locality unknown Pink and grey coarse-grained marble; a metamorphosed limestone breccia with sutured clast boundaries and yellowish stylolites.
405stone 405 Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece Sheared fine-grained calcite marble breccia.
406stone 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.
420stone 420 Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Breccia of medium to coarse-grained calcite marble clasts in a darkred marble matrix.
456stone 456 Breccia di Cango, from Cango, Milan, Lombardy, Italy Brecciated marble.
389stone 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.
446stone 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.
495stone 495 Breccia di Carrara, from Carrara, Massa e Carrara, Tuscany, Italy Marble breccia-conglomerate
685stone 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.
687stone 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.
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.
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.
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.
478stone 478 Breccia di Sciro, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece Sheared polymict marble breccia
490stone 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.
917stone 917 Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Sheared marble breccia.
918stone 918 Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Sheared breccia of marble clasts.
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.
912stone 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.
621stone 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.
488stone 488 Fior di pesco Apuano, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Sheared marble breccia; perhaps a tectonised burrowed/nodular limestone.
477stone 477 Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Breccia of calcite marble clasts.
903stone 903 Rosso antico brecciato, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey Breccia of calcite marble clasts in a hematitic matrix.
432stone 432 Breccia di Seravezza, from Seravezza; or perhaps breccia Medicea, from nearby Stazzema, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Fine-grained calcite marble breccia.
975stone 975 most probably breccia Medici di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy Fine-grained calcite marble breccia; a sheared and metamorphosed limestone breccia.
479stone 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.
202stone 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.
954stone 954 Fior di pesco Apuano from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Marble breccia; a sheared and tectonised limestone conglomerate.
955stone 955 Fior di pesco Apuano, from Stazzema, near Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Heavily fractured calcite marble breccia; a sheared and tectonised limestone conglomerate.
440stone 440 Corallina di Pisa, from Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Breccia of fine-grained calcite marble clasts.
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.
99stone 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.
95stone 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.
97stone 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.
416stone 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.
491stone 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.
429stone 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.
566stone 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.
947stone 947 Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece Sheared limestone conglomerate, metamorphosed to marble.
949stone 949 Breccia Medicea or 'Africano', from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Tectonised polymict breccia-conglomerate of limestone and marble clasts with solution-modified clast contacts.
417stone 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.
910stone 910 perhaps breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Heavily sheared and recrystallised limestone breccia, almost entirely altered to fine-grained marble.
451stone 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.
688stone 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.
137stone 137 Marmo bianco e giallo, breccia nuvolata, locality unknown. A fractured, stylolitised recrystallised limestone or marble, with Liesegang rings of ferruginous colouring.
963stone 963 Serpentina di Santa Caterina, from Santa Caterina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy Serpentinite, finely brecciated and veined with calcite.
594stone 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.
569stone 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.
969stone 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.
575stone 575 Serpentina di Valsabbia, from Valsabbia, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, a few of marble.
962stone 962 Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece Breccia with clasts mainly of serpentinite/ophicalcite, and a few of marble.
565stone 565 Verde antico, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece A breccia of serpentinite, schistose calc-silicate and crystalline marble clasts in a lime-green serpentinite matrix.
431stone 431 Breccia pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Marble breccia; a heavily stylolitised, metamorphosed polymict limestone conglomerate, probably resedimented.
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.
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.
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.
622stone 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.
690stone 690 Breccia di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy Conglomerate, with igneous clasts showing altered margins, in limestone matrix with well-preserved microfauna.
373stone 373 Derbyshire rosewood marble, from Nettler Dale, near Ashford, Derbyshire, England Limestone; a Carboniferous laminated algal biomicrite. Note synsedimentary brecciation of algal laminites.
250stone 250 Marmo della Gaetta, from Gaetta, Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy; or more probably from the area north of Verona, Veneto, Italy. Bioclast-rich microsparite limestone with gastropods and bivalves; perhaps originally nodular/intraclastic/conglomeritic, now much brecciated. It has calcite-filled fractures and stylolites.
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.
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.
167stone 167 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Synsedimentary limestone breccia.
177stone 177 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Slumped syn-sedimentary limestone breccia.
438stone 438 Breccia di Brescia, from Brescia, Lombardy, Italy Limestone breccia.
458stone 458 Pomarolo di Serme, from Serme, Verona, Veneto, Italy Brecciated limestone with red, non-calcareous (perhaps lateritic) matrix.
467stone 467 Breccia di Tivoli, from Tivoli, Lazio, Italy Black limestone breccia with white limestone matrix.
254stone 254 Lumachella di Vialeta, from Vialeta, Verona, Veneto, Italy Synsedimentary breccia of fossiliferous bioclast-rich microsparite limestone; the matrix is intraclast-rich with spar cement.
552stone 552 Gesso di Faenza, from Faenza, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Calcite-cemented breccia with small angular gypsum clasts, patches of micritic limestone and smaller dark grains.
943stone 943 Breccia rossa, locality unknown Metamorphosed (tectonised) limestone breccia with calcite/hematite-filled fractures, solution seams and stylolites.
418stone 418 Grand antique, bianco e nero antico, from Lez valley, Aubert, near St Girons, Hautes-Pyrénées, France Black limestone breccia with calcite-filled voids and fractures. Some beige coloured areas are fossiliferous clasts and margins to black clasts.
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.
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.
23stone 23 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix.
30stone 30 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix.
31stone 31 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix.
34stone 34 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. It has been cut to show where the matrix has turned grey as a result of exposure to anoxic reducing conditions. Other parts of this specimen are the normal colour of a giallo antico.
32stone 32 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils).
33stone 33 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils), and minor dendrites of manganese oxides.
28stone 28 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, extensively recrystallised through diagenesis, in a ferruginous micritic matrix. Note areas of coarser crystalline calcite (probably the relics of fossils), and stylolites.
22stone 22 Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia Breccia of clasts of fine-grained limestone, largely recrystallised, in a ferruginous sparry micritic matrix.
435stone 435 Breccia di Canneto, from Canneto, Tuscany, Italy Breccia of grey micritic limestone clasts showing 'paesination' (microfracture constrained iron-staining like that of pietra paesina, q.v.)
404stone 404 Breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Limestone breccia with extensive solution-modified stylolitic clast contacts, and calcite-filled fractures/veins.
433stone 433 'Breccia di Brentonega di Dolce nel Veronese', from Dolce, Verona, Veneto, Italy, or from Brentónico, Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy Jurassic ?syn-sedimentary breccia with micritic limestone clasts, sparry matrix, stylolites and spar-filled voids.
434stone 434 Breccia dorata, from Montagnola Senese, Siena, Tuscany, Italy Breccia of fine-grained recrystallised limestone (probably weakly metamorphosed) clasts, closely packed, with minimal red calcareous matrix. Pink colour is leached, not present in rims of larger clasts and all the smaller clasts. It has stylolites, stylolitised clast boundaries, and a few sparry calcite-filled cavities.
450stone 450 Breccia della Gaetta, from Gaetta (Gaeta), Lake Como, Como, Lombardy, Italy Limestone breccio-conglomerate in pink limestone matrix.
948stone 948 Broccatellone, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Tectonised limestone breccia-conglomerate.
216stone 216 Broccatellone from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Limestone breccia-conglomerate with a ferruginous matrix. It has extensive post-depositional fracturing and calcite veining.
105stone 105 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a black matrix.
483stone 483 'Breccia traccagnina di Giazza', locality unknown; possibly the Verona area, Veneto, Italy Polymict limestone breccia-conglomerate with solution modified clast boudaries.
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.
945stone 945 Breccia pavonazza bruna o dal suffragio, locality unknown Polymict breccia-conglomerate. Smaller clasts in matrix are realatively rounded and ferruginous reddish-brown, and all clasts are have ferruginous mainly stylolitic clast boundaries Voids are filled with sparry calcite. A few clasts contain bright green, 'fushsite' (chromium-bearing muscovite).
452stone 452 Breccia del Giannicolo, from Rome, Lazio, Italy Limestone breccio-conglomerate, very poorly sorted; the matrix is clear crystalline calcite in places, elsewhere full of microfauna-rich grains.
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.
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