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
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.
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.
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.
415stone 415 Breccia, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate. Matrix is a fossiliferous micrite with minor dendritic Mn-oxides. Some clasts have goethitic rims. Note calcite-filled voids and calcite-filled fractures. Red areas are filler/polishing compound.
414stone 414 Occhio di pernice, locality unknown Limestone conglomerate. Clasts are in part intraclast-rich; this may be debris flow material. Note extensive stylolites and calcite-filled fractures
413stone 413 Breccia gialla, locality unknown Polymict limestone breccia/conglomerate.
412stone 412 Breccia dorata, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy Limestone breccia with solution-modified fractures
411stone 411 Breccia dorata, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy Limestone breccia/conglomerate with pervasive suturing and solution-modification of clast boundaries.
410stone 410 Breccia di Casteldaccia, from Calvario, near Casteldaccia, Palermo, Sicily Polymict limestone conglomerate with pervasive sutured solution-modified clast boundaries.
409stone 409 Semesanto, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece Polymict sheared limestone breccia in clay-rich matrix.
408stone 408 Breccia della Villa Casali, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate. Note complex sutured solution-modified clast contacts. Contains shell fragments among clasts.
407stone 407 Griotte, from the Haute Pyrénées, France Lower Devonian red nodular limestone, clay-rich matrix, with extensive solution seams and stylolites
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.
405stone 405 Breccia di Settebasi, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece Sheared fine-grained calcite marble breccia.
404stone 404 Breccia corallina, from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Limestone breccia with extensive solution-modified stylolitic clast contacts, and calcite-filled fractures/veins.
403stone 403 Breccia traccagnina, brecha da Arrábida, from Siera di Arrábida, Setúbal, Portugal Polymict limestone conglomerate
402stone 402 Breccia traccagnina, breccia Capitolina, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate.
401stone 401 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate - perhaps a debris flow.
400stone 400 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate; heavily altered clast boundaries
399stone 399 Breccia corallina giallastra from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey or breccia Godoy Polymict limestone conglomerate. Clast boundaries and contacts sutured. Note stylolites and extensive calcite-filled fractures.
398stone 398 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate.
397stone 397 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone, and dolomite breccia/conglomerate, heavily fractured with sutured, solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites.
396stone 396 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone conglomerate with solution-modified sutured clast boundaries and stylolites.
395stone 395 Breccia traccagnina, locality unknown Polymict limestone and dolomite conglomerate with solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites.
394stone 394 Breccia di Aleppo, from Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece Polymict limestone conglomerate with solution-modified clast boundaries and stylolites.
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.
375stone 375 Derbyshire 'alabaster', Poole's Cavern 'alabaster', from Poole's Cavern, near Buxton, Derbyshire, England Speleothem calcite with irregular aggregates of metallic grey galena crystals cementing brecciated Carboniferous Limestone. The limestone contains abundant crinoids, bryozoa and other bioclasts.
373stone 373 Derbyshire rosewood marble, from Nettler Dale, near Ashford, Derbyshire, England Limestone; a Carboniferous laminated algal biomicrite. Note synsedimentary brecciation of algal laminites.
371stone 371 Alabastro di Civitavecchia, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy Breccia of travertine clasts, peloids, algal debris and fine-grained ferruginous detritus in a sparite matrix .
330stone 330 Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria. This appears to be a recrystallised brecciated compact banded travertine, composed of medium and coarse-grained granular calcite. It is coloured red by disseminated hematite.
303stone 303 Alabastro a occhi, locality unknown Brecciated fine-grained compact banded travertine, with acicular and granular bands of calcite, some dark orange-brown coloured.
301stone 301 Alabastro fiorito, most probably from the Pamukkale area, Denizli, Turkey Compact banded travertine, brecciated in places, composed of fine- to medium-grained calcite with some orange-brown ferruginous bands. Abundant cavities contain greyish brown wax filler.
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.
251stone 251 Travertino di Monte Catini, from Montecatini Terme, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy Limestone, brown ferruginous in places, composed of brecciated travertine, algal fragments and other bioclasts. Cavities are mostly filled with sparry calcite.
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.
234stone 234 Lumachella di Menaggio, from Menaggio, Como, Lombardy, Italy, or more likely a lumachella from Verona or Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. Fossiliferous pel-sparite limestone. It has abundant peloids and intraclasts of micritic limestone in a sparry matrix. Some layers are rich in bivalves, others are edgewise breccia together with fragments of laminated 'algal' cyanobacterial micrite.
216stone 216 Broccatellone from Verzirhan, Bilecik,Turkey Limestone breccia-conglomerate with a ferruginous matrix. It has extensive post-depositional fracturing and calcite veining.
213stone 213 Colombino della Punta Pina, from Punta Pina, island of Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated, micritic limestone with extensive calcite-filled fractures.
208stone 208 Languedoc marble, from Caunes-Minervois, Carcassonne, Aude, France Devonian red limestone rich in crinoid debris, with prominent grey-white stromatactis and abundant stylolites.
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.
206stone 206 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy Limestone; fossiliferous burrowed micrite/microsparite with red burrow infilling, perhaps part of a hard ground. Note the calcite-filled fractures and solution seams.
205stone 205 Fior di pesco (fior di persico), from Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece Triassic tectonite. A sheared marble breccia with late-stage calcite-filled veins and fractures
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.
196stone 196 Fior di persico, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Marble; a tectonised and sheared limestone breccia-conglomerate.
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.
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.
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.
177stone 177 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Slumped syn-sedimentary limestone breccia.
176stone 176 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, libeccio, from Rocca delli Panni, Sicily, Italy Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia with voids filled by submarine cement.
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.
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.
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.
172stone 172 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy Limestone. Syn-sedimentary limestone breccia cut by a neptunian dyke.
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.
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.
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.
168stone 168 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Fine-grained red limestone with synsedimentary slump folds.
167stone 167 Diaspro tenero di Sicilia, from Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy Synsedimentary limestone breccia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
137stone 137 Marmo bianco e giallo, breccia nuvolata, locality unknown. A fractured, stylolitised recrystallised limestone or marble, with Liesegang rings of ferruginous colouring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
114stone 114 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts. Note stylolites.
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.
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.
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.
110stone 110 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted limestone clasts, with stylolites and calcite-filled fractures
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.
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.
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.
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.
105stone 105 Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a black matrix.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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