Corsi 525, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 525 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Breccia di Modena, from Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Geological description: | Micrite/microsparite limestone with abundant bioclasts, extensively fractured and stylolitised. Dendritic iron and manganese oxides are developed along stylolites. |
| Comments: | 'Modena Variformo' is written in pencil on Corsi's label, but this provenance in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, is not confirmed; there are a number of argillaceous limestones from the Modena area recorded in Jervis (1889). In the De Santis Collection in Rome a stone which may be the same is called paesina erborizzata, but no provenance is given. |
| References: | Jervis (1889) 192-196 |
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| Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 6. Argillaceous stones; ii. Dendritic clays |
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| Corsi's text: | 130.9 Breccia di Modena |