OUMNH Number: | 628 |
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Name and quarry location: | Pietra del Vesuvio, from Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy |
Geological description: | Carbonate-rich bedded volcanogenic sediment, comprising well-graded light and dark layers at abrupt contact with each other. The light layer has rounded clasts up to 4mm of altered tephra. The two elongated ovoid bodies with concentric structure and crenulate margins, have diffuse margins especially with the lighter layer, and may be metasomatically altered carbonate xenoliths. |
Comments: | Similar samples in the Museum’s historic Daubeny collection are labelled 'marble … ejected mass [from] Fossa Grande', a deep ravine on the flanks of Vesuvius. Small slabs of the various stones from Vesuvius were sold to 'grand tourists'. For example, when Jane and Mary Parminter returned to England in the 18th century, they had their souvenirs inlaid in a table-top, now to be seen at A La Ronde, a National Trust property in Devon, England. |
References: | Price (2007) 214. Other examples: Daubeny coll. 5435, 5436 and 5437, Oxford University Museum of Natural History. |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 8. Volcanic stones; i. Stones from Vesuvius |
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Corsi's text: | 154.8 Pietra del Vesuvio. Altro [Lava] |