| OUMNH Number: |
735
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| Name and quarry location: |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Adrano, from Adriano, Sicily, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Brecciated yellow jasper, clasts heavily fractured, fracture-fill and matrix are greyish white chalcedony stained yellowish away from clasts. Brown patches on specimen are filler, generally in crystalline quartz-lined cavities.
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| Comments: |
Perhaps from either Palazzo Adriano, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy mentioned for jasper by Jervis (1881, 1889), from the nearby Feudo Adriano; or from Adrana in Catania both mentioned by Montana (1998). Tata (1772) has two samples from 'Adriano'.
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| References: |
Jervis (1881) 223, 225; Jervis (1889) 459; Montana & Briuccia (1998) 33; Price (2007) 246-247; Schmidt (2002); Tata (1772) 23-24, 29
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