 | | Report (chapter) | | materials of the historical architecture of Tuscany, Italy F. FRATINI & S. RESCIC* CNR – Institute for...Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy *Corresponding author (e-mail: s.rescic@icvbc.cnr...in the historical architecture of Tuscany, a region of central Italy characterized by a great variety...while the towns and villages of central-southern Tuscany are generally more heterogeneous, with an abundant...most common durability problems. Tuscany is a region of central Italy characterized by a great variety |  | | Journal (issue) | | .........259 b y U. Burchard Minerals of the Carrara M arble..........................................Louise, Horhausen, FRG San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy Kongsberg, Norway Friedrichssegen, Bad Ems, FRG...4 cm, on matrix, from San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. Photo by Rainer Bode. 260 The M in eralogical...Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy Giovanni Bracci Via dei Mulinacci, 8 57100 Livorno, Italy Domenico Dalena Viale...41 57100 Livorno, Italy F W twothousand years, the marble quarries near Carrara have yielded superb |  | | Book (volume) | | MOUNTAIN GEOLOGY ’ PARTS NORTHERN 1 AND [ITALY II AND TUSCANY BY C. S. DU RICHE PRELLER, M.A., Ph.D...MOUNTAIN PaRts NORTHERN I anp ITALY GEOLOGY. II. AND TUSCANY. OTHER GEOLOGICAL SAME PUBLICATIONS...Filol. Florence.” 1881. The Central Apennines from Tuscany to the Adriatic: ‘“‘ Journ. Ital. Alpine Club,...Lake Basins of Northern Italy. The Piedmontese Alps, Ligurian Apennines, Carrara Mountains, Subapennines...idem. The Ancient Sea and Lake Basins of Central Italy : idem. Italian Mountain Geology, Part II]. Wheldon |  | | Journal (issue) | | PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of |  | | Book | | examined, while the famous pro¬ duction centre of Carrara is dealt with in great detail. Jacket illustration:...different Uses of Marble Chapter Four The Marble of Carrara Chapter Five The Future of Marble Chapter Six...the quarrymen, marble workers and inhabitants of Carrara who with their enthusiasm helped and encouraged...- materia e cultura» © Sagep Editrice, Genoa - Italy Translated by Penelope J. Hammond-Smith All rights...York, N.Y. 10016 ISBN 0-8160-1350-0 Printed in Italy-Genoa - by Sagep Editrice Foreward Whoever reads |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | are: hematite, tenorite, lammerite, urusovite, orthoclase and johillerite. General appearance: Aggregates...quarry, Colonnata valley, Carrara basin, Apuan Alps, northern Tuscany, Italy. Occurrence: In calcite vein...vein cavities within the famous Carrara marble. Associated minerals are: azurite and volborthite. It...Ge contents of 1.3 wt.% have been found in the Carrara area. General appearance: Prismatic to tabular...member of the ettringite group. Name: After the Carrara region. Comments: IMA No. 1998–002. Because of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | medieval buildings in Pisa and Lucca (western Tuscany, Italy). 3 – Green and white-pink quartzites from...degli Studi di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy e-mail: Franzini@dst.unipi.it Abstract: In the...Ages in the cities of Pisa and Lucca (western Tuscany), the chemical, mineralogical, petrographical and...white-pink quartzite samples from Mt. Pisano (Tuscany, Italy) were determined. Data was collected on unweathered...until the QG no longer outcrops in the area between Massa Macinaia and Pieve di Compito. The QG presents a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tertiary serpentines of Monte Ferrato in Prato (Tuscany), and those of parts of the Ligurian Apennines...rocks of the Pyrenees. From my own observations in Italy in 1881, I could not doubt the correctness of these...the so-called Eocene serpentines of Liguria and Tuscany until 1878, a few months before his death, when...from a long campaign in the Apennines of Prato (Tuscany) and the Apennines of Liguria, I was agreeably...as to the crystalline terranes of the North of Italy. For this I thank you with all my heart, and demand |  | | Book | | [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...8:287-293 Minerals of the Alpine rodingites of Italy (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 10:85-89 Micromounting in...Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari, Sardinia [Italy] (by R. Vochten & G. Brizzi) 18:181-184 AREM, JOEL...Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza, G. Pratesi & R. Braga) 25:293-299 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DEFORMATION OF ROCKS A. B. C. D. E. F. G. Marble, Carrara, Italy Lithographic Limestone, Solenhofen, Bavaria...("Cement Rock"), Hull, Canada Granite, Baveno, Italy SUMMARY INTRODUCTION In a paper which appeared... Selenite 2 Limonite 5-6 Rock salt 2.5 Orthoclase 6 Iceland spar Fluorite Apatite Diopside 3...which has taken place along planes of fracture. Orthoclase.-The crystals used in this experiment were from...that under the conditions of the experiment, the orthoclase, while probably displaying a very slight plastic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | like some, at least, of t hose in Nova Scotia and Tuscany. Whatever the cause, the marmoreal metamorphosis...granitic rock mainly composed of quartz; and orthoclase, with some oligoclase, mica, and hornblende;...the name syenite for the granitic aggregate of orthoclase, oligoclase, quartz, a little mica, and some...years was applied to hornblendic granitic, Now orthoclase and hornblende constitute what tbe German Iitbologists..." The ,. Rose-coloured Syenite" con. sista of orthoclase, qu artz, and hornblende; but the Wernerian school |  | | Journal (issue) | | Riviera, brings us to our destination, Ge11oa in Italy. We stop here only long enough to glance at the...interesting collection of minerals, chiefly from Tuscany and Elba. There are many minerals here ":hich ...collection, probably the l-1.rgest and best in Italy, which is shown l 'J us by the most courteous Prof...mainstay when journeying in out-of-the-way parts of Italy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that while...storekeepers around the village. We had been in Italy long enough by this time to have picked up a little |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diversifies stone types, encouraging, for example Carrara Marble and Peterhead Granite to appear in both...appearance in this cemetery from 1845 of Carrara Marble imported from Italy, and from 1900, Balmoral Red, a granite...Aberdeen. Widely documented is the tendency for Carrara Marble to disappear from graveyards from the 1950s...recognized by the flesh-coloured tone of the orthoclase feldspars . 'Balrnora l Red ', a granite imported...feldspars, appears on a stone dated 1889 and 1924. Carrara Marble appears for the first time in 1896 distinguished |  | | Journal (issue) | | Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mine at the southern end of the Seridó pegmatitic province (adapted from Sinkankas, 1981). Figure 2. Location...situated within a large, well-known pegmatite province containing hundreds of pegmatite bodies that have...Serido Group, is part of the Borborema geologic province (Almeida et al., 1981). The dikes are thought...International Mineralogical Association, Pisa, Italy, 1–13. ALMEIDA, F. F. M., HASUI, Y., BRITO NEVES |  | | | | be split into wafer-thin sheets. Crystals of orthoclase (a feldspar) may be milky white or pale pink...black crystal of augite (a pyroxene) comes from Italy. Augite crystals are found in various igneous rocks...distinctive This sample is from the Lipari Islands, Italy. bands formedias the thick, sticky lava flowed...CHINA The staggering landscape of the Hunan Province of China is typical of karst scenery. Named after...sculpted this statue from Carrara marble, : Zaye PHS Es cunpey CARRARA QUARRY The world's most famous |  | | Book | | (Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Romania Grube Georg, Horhausen, FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5...5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Rheinbreitbach, Bonn, FRG Wurlitz, Fichtelgebirge, FRG Niedermendig...Northumberland, Great Britain 7 Caltanisetta, Sicily, Italy 9 Li..ineburg, Niedersachsen, FRG 8 Mansfeld, Thuringia |  | | Report (issue) | | 2-cm-long, poorly formed, scattered phenocrysts of orthoclase containing patches of microcline. Plagioclase...Plagioclase is sodic andesine; potassium feldspar is orthoclase. Color index ranges from 15 to 20; biotite is...oligoclase to sodic andesine; potassium feldspar is orthoclase. Color index averages 20, but varies widely;...very porphyritic. Pale pink, slightly perthitic orthoclase phenocrysts make up as much as 25 percent of...potassium feldspar, averaging 12 percent, is orthoclase. Color index is about 18 and varies little; biotite | | | Report (issue) | | 2-cm-long, poorly formed, scattered phenocrysts of orthoclase containing patches of microcline. Plagioclase...potassium feldspar is highly perthitic microcline and orthoclase. Average color index is 5, locally as high as...oligoclase to sodic andesine; potassium feldspar is orthoclase. Color index averages 20, but varies widely;...potassium feldspar, averaging 12 percent, is orthoclase. Color index is about 18 and varies little; biotite...Plagioclase is sodic andesine; potassium feldspar is orthoclase. Color index ranges from 15 to 20; biotite is |  | | Book | | Feldspars 100% Na[AlSi308] Albite (pure Na-feldspar) Orthoclase 80% Oligoclase Adularia 60% Andesine Sanidine...Anorthite (pure Ca-feldspar) 100% Ca[Al2Si2Og] Orthoclase (Greek ‘straight refraction’) K[AlSi3Og] (Potassium...Germany, Italy, Brazil. (Specimen from Italy). 5 Adularia a colourless variety of orthoclase found in...Physical properties as for orthoclase. From Wallis, Switzerland. 6 Common Orthoclase in massive roughly lamellar...Physical properties as for orthoclase. From Norway. 7 Karlsbad Twin (orthoclase) from Saxony. Sanidine is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Johnson M inerals o f th e S eravezza M arble, Tuscany, I ta ly ........................................Tel: (501) 767-4800> 34 Carrara 1 9/20 Via P ie di M arm o R om e, Italy H ours: 10-1 a n d 5 -7 M...Tel: 39-50-501587 Lungarno Gambacorti 39 P isa , Italy Hours: by Appointment Specialty: Italian and Worldwide...(612) 297-6709 C.so Venezia 55, 20121 M ilano, Italy The Mineralogical Record, volume 2 7 , January-February...1-56100 Pisa, Italy L oren zo D e l C hiaro Via Virgilio, 80 1-55049 Viareggio, Italy R en a to P agano |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | KLEIMENOV, D.A., CHUKANOV, N.V., YAKUBOVICH, O.V., MASSA, W., BELAKOVSKIY, D.I. & PAUTOV, L.A. (2002): Bushmakinite...Locality: Tre Croce, near Vetralla, Viterbo province, Latium, Italy. Occurrence: In miarolitic cavities in...Natural History, at the Università di Firenze, Italy. Comments: IMA No. 2000–021. DELLA VENTURA, G.,...new minerals of the hellandite group from Latium (Italy). American Mineralogist 87, 739-744. OBERTI, R....sodic granite. Associated minerals are: quartz, orthoclase, albite, aegirine, kupletskite, elpidite, lorenzenite |  | | Book | | Bangor . . . . Skiddaw Statuary Marble, Carrara Gneiss, Freiberg Kinzigite, Kinzigtal Garnetiferous...Chiastolite Slate, Skiddaw ; Statuary Marble, Carrara Gneiss, Freiberg Kinzigite, Kinzigtal ; Garnetiferous...shown a base of pink which exhibits the ultra- orthoclase felspar is shown microscopic structure of that...colourless crystals of material composed of orthoclase and quartz, one of which shows the outlines...portions of the felspars, of which there are two orthoclase or potash - felspar at the top and kinds, middle-left |  | | Report (volume) | | System_____________________________________________ Carrara Formation.__________________..-_____--____---__-_Bonanza...gray limestone, dolomite, and minor shale 1,600 Carrara Formation Thin-bedded limy shale, siltstone, and...the quadrangle, the Cambrian is divided into the Carrara Formation of Early and Middle Cambrian age and...the Nopah Formation (pi. 1; fig. 2). CARRARA FORMATION The Carrara Formation, of Early and Middle Cambrian...sequence of interstratified shale and limestone in Carrara Canyon in the Bare Mountain quadrangle, Nevada | | | | | triplet). Monoclinic system: 37, 38 potash felspar (orthoclase; 37 single crystal, 38 Carlsbad twin); 39 potash...shells). The coarse to finegrained calcite marbles (Carrara, page 63/4) are formed by metamorphism of limestone...Na). The most important type is the monoclinic orthoclase in which the two cleavages are perpendicular...microcline cannot usually be distinguished from orthoclase with the naked eye. As the green amazonite ...by chlorite, in Alpine mineral fissures. (1—5 orthoclase; 4—5 with quartz in granite druse). 9-11 The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | consist predominantly of micropegmatite and orthoclase, with, subordinate plagioclase, augite, ilmenite...paper on3 the Marble District of the Apuan Alps or Carrara Mountains I showed that the gneissose schists which...for the completion of the new geological map of Italy then in course of preparation and published in 1896;... and was embodied in the new geological map of Italy of 1896, a preliminary sketch of the earlier results...shows that the marble of that locality, as that of Carrara, was quarried already by the Eomans. Similar saccharoidal |
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