| OUMNH Number: |
368
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| Name and quarry location: |
almost certainly Travertino di Civitavecchia, from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Calcite travertine deposit, with algal(probably cyanobacterial) laminites. Coloured bands are tinted by hematite (red) and goethite (yellow).
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| Comments: |
No records of travertines from the province of Milan have been found. This stone resembles a specimen from Civitavecchia, province of Roma, Lazio, Italy in the De Santis collection in Rome, which shows a similar 'way-up' of banded and crystalline layers, and makes Civitavecchia an altogether more probable source.
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| References: |
Corpo Reale delle Miniere (1904) 98; Faramondi (1985) 18-19; Jervis (1889) 339-340; Price (2007) 57. Other examples: DeSantis coll. no. 283 and (especially) no. 284, Servizio Geologico d’Italia, Rome.
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| Further information: |
Alabaster-travertine.pdf
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