Corsi 945, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 945 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Breccia pavonazza bruna o dal suffragio, locality unknown |
| Geological description: | Polymict breccia-conglomerate. Smaller clasts in matrix are realatively rounded and ferruginous reddish-brown, and all clasts are have ferruginous mainly stylolitic clast boundaries Voids are filled with sparry calcite. A few clasts contain bright green, 'fushsite' (chromium-bearing muscovite). |
| Comments: | This is breccia pavonazza bruna o del suffragio, as illustrated by Borghini (1997) 178. The provenance is not known. |
| References: | Belli (1842) no.380; Borghini (1997) 178; Corsi (1845) 147-148; Gnoli (1988) 243-245; Mielsch (1985) 51, taf.12; Price (2007) 127; Pullen (1894) 84 |
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| Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 5. Breccias; i. Antique Breccias |
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| Corsi's text: | 116.36/ S18.3 Breccia pavonazza |