Corsi 489, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 489 |
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| 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 |
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| Corsi's text: | 125.68 Breccia degli Appennini |