Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

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Corsi 489, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History

OUMNH Number: 489  
Name and quarry location: Breccia degli Appennini, from the Apennines, Italy  
Geological description: Deformed granitoid; porphyroblasts are quartz dominantly, perhaps originally vein quartz, now disrupted.  
Comments: This locality has not been confirmed. Corsi has misclassified this stone with the marbles.  
References: Corsi (1825); Price (2007) 113  
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Corsi's classification: Class 1. Marbles; Section 5. Breccias; ii. Italian Breccias  
Corsi's text: 125.68 Breccia degli Appennini  

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