Corsi 416, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 416 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Probably breccia di Sciro from Skyros, Sporades, Central Greece |
| Geological description: | A nodular or conglomeratic limestone, sheared and metamorphosed to a marble breccia, with extensive clay-rich hematitic matrix and deformed calcite veins. Note extensive late-stage solution seamed stylolite development. |
| Comments: | This is most probably from Skyros, Greece, but it is less typical than, for example, Corsi 405, 409 and 947. |
| References: | Corsi (1845) 147-148; Lazzarini (1999a); Price (2007) 129 |
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| Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 5. Breccias; i. Antique Breccias |
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| Corsi's text: | 115.28 Breccia pavonazza |