| OUMNH Number: |
371
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| Name and quarry location: |
Alabastro di Civitavecchia, from Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Breccia of travertine clasts, peloids, algal debris and fine-grained ferruginous detritus in a sparite matrix .
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| Comments: |
Confirmed as Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy. Other comparable but more hematite-rich examples of 'alabastro' from this locality are in the De Santis collection in Rome. Jervis (1889) lists a number of quarries in his description of Civitavecchia travertine.
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| References: |
Corpo Reale delle Miniere (1904) 98; Faramondi (1985) 18-19; Jervis (1889) 339-340. Other examples: De Santis Coll. nos. 285 & 283, Servizio Geologico d'Italia, Rome.
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