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. |
105 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of small limestone clasts in a black matrix. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
110 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia of poorly sorted limestone clasts, with stylolites and calcite-filled fractures |
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. |
112 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts which have been partially oxidised. |
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. |
114 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Cretaceous tectonic breccia or conglomerate of poorly sorted limestone clasts. Note stylolites. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
913 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly-sorted grey-brown biospar limestone clasts in a microspar matrix rich in red, brown and yellow ferruginous matter (oxidised chlorite). The same colours abundant stylolites. Cavities are filled with sparry calcite. |
914 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly-sorted largely recrystallised limestone clasts in a sparry calcite matrix coloured dark brown by included ferruginous matter (oxidised chlorite). It has abundant stylolites, some are white, other iron-stained orange-brown. Fractures are filled with calcite. |
915 |
Africano, from Sigacik (ancient Teos), Izmir Province, Turkey |
Tectonic breccia-conglomerate of poorly-sorted limestone and metamorphic clasts, the latter rich in green iron silicates. The matrix is green, chlorite-rich. |
683 |
'Traccagnina delle Alpi', perhaps from the province of Verona, Italy |
Breccia-conglomerate of sub-angular to rounded limestone, dolostone and occasional quartz clasts in a ferruginous sparite matrix. Clasts show extensive fracturing. |
83 |
'Portasanta', locality unknown |
Pink and grey coarse-grained marble; a metamorphosed limestone breccia with sutured clast boundaries and yellowish stylolites. |
907 |
'Portasanta', locality unknown |
Sheared limestone/marble breccia with extensive stylolite development. |
500 |
'Persichino di Romegiano', from Domegiano or Romagnano, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Fossiliferous micritic limestone with debris probably of bivalves. |
44 |
'Marmo giallo di Sentro', perhaps from Centro Tregnago, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
Brecciated fine-grained limestone with calcite-filled fractures; heavily stylolitised. |
752 |
'Diaspro delle Alpi', from the Alps (not confirmed) |
Breccia of white granular quartz and other clasts, many rimmed with muscovite, in a red ferruginous quartz matrix. Some fractures are filled with calcareous cemented sandstone. The whole rock is sheared and folded. |
976 |
'Diaspro d'Egitto', locality unknown |
Breccia of green iron-rich prase/aventurine? fragments in a chalcedony matrix. Abundant ferruginous ‘debris’ is in places altered to orange goethitic and red hematitic spherules. A broad colourless chalcedony vein traverses specimen. |
483 |
'Breccia traccagnina di Giazza', locality unknown; possibly the Verona area, Veneto, Italy |
Polymict limestone breccia-conglomerate with solution modified clast boudaries. |
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. |