Corsi 43, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 43 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Pomorolo di Mizzolle, from Mizolle, Val Pantena, Verona, Veneto, Italy |
| Geological description: | Brecciated fine-grained limestone crowded with rhombohedral microcrystals of calcite. It has prominent stylolites. Dark brown areas are wax filler. |
| Comments: | The painted number on the back of the specimen indicates a Verona/Vicenza provenance for this yellow limestone (see Verona.pdf for more information). Mizzole, in Val Pantena, is almost certainly correct; Jervis (1889) refers to a limestone/marble quarry at Mizzole. Nos. 43, 45 and 48 all contain similar conspicuous subhedral-euhedral microcrystals of calcite, and are all said to be from Mizzole. |
| References: | Jervis (1889) 144 |
| Further information: |
Verona.pdf |
| Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 1. Monochrome marbles; Species 3. Yellow marbles ii. Yellow marbles of Italy |
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| Corsi's text: | 31.9 Pomorolo di Mizzolle nel veronese |