| OUMNH Number: |
956
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| Name and quarry location: |
Pietra paesina, from Tuscany, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Micritic limestone with scattered tiny bioclasts, coarser-grained intraclasts, and stylolites. It is heavily fractured, the microfracture-constrained iron-staining giving a 'paesina' effect. Abundant dentritic manganese oxides are concentrated in, or emanate from some intraclasts, stylolites and veins. It is almost certainly from the Cretaceous to Eocene Alberese Formation.
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| Comments: |
This example of Alberese limestone combines the appearance of pietra paesina with well-developed dendrites adding 'trees' to the 'landscape'. It could come from various places in Tuscany, including Valdarno.
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| References: |
Marko (2003); McBride (2003); Price (2007) 101-103
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