| OUMNH Number: |
40
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| Name and quarry location: |
Giallo antico, from Chemtou, Tunisia
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| Geological description: |
Fine-grained limestone, weakly metamorphosed and sheared, with yellow ferruginous stylolites, and scattered euhedral microcrystals of dark orange-brown iron oxide (goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite?) concentrated particularly in the stylolites.
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| Comments: |
All authorities agree this is giallo antico; marmor numidicum; Numidian yellow from Chimtou (the Roman Smitthus), Tunisia. Corsi had presumably meant Brianza, the area between Milan, Como and Lecco, a source of sandstones and conglomerates but not yellow limestones or marbles (Jervis,1889; passim.)
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| References: |
Blagrove (1888) 83; Borghini (1997) 214-215; Corsi (1845) 90-91; Jervis (1889) passim.; Lazzarini (2002c) 243-244; Mielsch (1985) 56, taf.15; Price (2007) 90-91; Watson (1916) 271-274
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