Corsi 563, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 563 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Marmo polveroso di Pistoia, from Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy |
| Geological description: | Micritic limestone with abundant planktonic foraminifera. |
| Comments: | Pistoia is almost certainly correct. Blagrove (1888) writes: 'This marble [polveroso], which has a black ground sprinkled with small white and grey spots, is quarried at Pistoja, in Tuscany'. |
| References: | Blagrove (1888) 99-100 |
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| Corsi's classification: | Class 5. Slates |
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| Corsi's text: | 140.4 Marmo polveroso di Pistoja |