| OUMNH Number: |
344
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| Name and quarry location: |
Alabastro scuro di Collepardo, from Collepardo, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Banded compact travertine composed of very fine-grained, grading to coarse-grained, columnar calcite.
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| Comments: |
Collepardo, southeast of Rome, is famous for its karst features and limestone caves containing dramatic speleothems which were first described at the beginning of the 19th century. A rather more orange-coloured variety than Corsi's is illustrated in Faramondi (1985), part of the collection of ornamental and building stones in the Servizio Geologico d'Italia.
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| References: |
Faramondi (1985) 30-31, 37
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| Further information: |
Alabaster-travertine.pdf
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