Corsi 952, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 952 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Breccia di Siena, from Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
| Geological description: | Sheared polymict limestone conglomerate. The shearing may have been synsedimentary: Solution seams and stylolites are pervasive. Perhaps a sheared debris flow. |
| Comments: | This is the brown breccia that used to be obtained from Siena. There is a little yellow in some clasts but not as much as in no.480, another example of this stone. |
| References: | Price (2007) 92 |
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| Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 5. Breccias; i. Antique Breccias |
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| Corsi's text: | 116.43/ S19.10 Breccia lignea |