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
903stone 903 Rosso antico brecciato, from Kiyi Kislacik, Milas, Mugla Province, Turkey Breccia of calcite marble clasts in a hematitic matrix.
488stone 488 Fior di pesco Apuano, from Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Sheared marble breccia; perhaps a tectonised burrowed/nodular limestone.
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.
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.
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.
918stone 918 Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Sheared breccia of marble clasts.
917stone 917 Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Sheared 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.
478stone 478 Breccia di Sciro, from Isle of Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece Sheared polymict marble breccia
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
456stone 456 Breccia di Cango, from Cango, Milan, Lombardy, Italy Brecciated marble.
420stone 420 Pavonazzetto, from Iscehisar (Synnada), Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Breccia of medium to coarse-grained calcite marble clasts in a darkred marble matrix.
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.
83stone 83 'Portasanta', locality unknown Pink and grey coarse-grained marble; a metamorphosed limestone breccia with sutured clast boundaries and yellowish 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.
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.
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.
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.
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