 | | Report (chapter) | | July 14, 2015 Carrara Marble: a nomination for ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ from Italy P. PRIMAVORI...Politecnico of Milan, Italy (e-mail: pieprima@gmail.com) Abstract: Carrara Marble, from Italy, probably one of...Resource’. Quarried since pre-Roman times, the Carrara marble is the testimonial of an area/industry that...all over the world. Carrara Marble takes its name from the Italian city of Carrara where it has been quarried...marble is automatically associated with the word Carrara. Indisputably, for decades and decades, there has |  | | 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) | | .........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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ore-forming Processes in the Apuane Alps (NW Tuscany, Italy): Constraints by Pb-lsotope Data* P. Lattanzi...z Museo di Mineralogia, Universit~ di Firenze, Italy, 3 IKP-ETH, Ziirich, Switzerland With 4Figures Received...208/204: 38.5-38.6), defining a high #, high W province suggestive of an evolution in a crustal environment...Pb-isotope data from deposits of the southern Tuscany * This paper was presented at the IGCP 291 Project...northwestern Tuscany, Italy, which is worldwide renowned for the production of the famous "Carrara marble" |  | | Journal (issue) | | s11ries, as they are ne eded. Oniiie MlnerelTraii: Italy MALTA THE $TORY OFTHE EARTH Minerals Ill Medlclne...adular/11 (moonstone) on black henu,rite (Isla ofElba, Italy). Leff; Yellow orthoclas• has tire same chemical...moonstona-prodllcing countries are Brazi l, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Myann1ar (Burmal, Switzer land...hallway up the volcanic .\fouor Vesuvius near Naples (Italy), Although it has sobsequentl)' beeu found i11 other...cuspid;ne from Monte Somma, pan of Mount Vtsurius (Italy}. Right:Spear·lh•p•dcrystals of cu,pldlne surrounded |  | Orlandi, Paolo, Moëlo, Yves, Meerschaut, Alain, Palvadeau, Pierre, Leone, Philippe (2004) Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy) VI. Pellouxite, ~ (Cu,Ag)2Pb21Sb23S55ClO, a new oxy-chloro-sulfosalt from Buca della Vena mine, Apuan Alps. European Journal of Mineralogy, 16 (5) 839-844 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2004/0016-0839 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 16, 839-844 Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy). VI. Pellouxite, ~ (Cu,Ag)2Pb21Sb23S55ClO...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa, Italy de Chimie des Solides, Institut des Matériaux J...deposit of Buca della Vena mine, Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). The new mineral name honours professor Alberto...conditions controlled by the pyrite-hematite-magnetite buffer. Key-words: pellouxite, new mineral, oxy-chloro-sulfide...oxy-chloro-sulfide, sulfosalt, lead, antimony, Tuscany, Italy. Introduction Pellouxite is the seventh mineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WINWOOD, M.A., F.G.S. r I )HE statuary marbles of Carrara have b'een repeatedly asserted to JL be metamorphic...the subject till he could spend a longer time at Carrara. That opportunity, however, never came, and is...the same age in a description of an excursion to Carrara, Bollettino delta societd Geologica Italiana, vol...Professor T. G. Bonney & Rev. H. H. Winwood— § The Carrara Mountains, also called the Apuan Alps, are a short...and the Serchio, lie the noted quarries of Carrara and Massa. These, with others in the district, are high |  | | 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 |  | Muttoni, Giovanni, Scardia, Giancarlo, Kent, Dennis V., Swisher, Carl C., Manzi, Giorgio (2009) Pleistocene magnetochronology of early hominin sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286 (1) 255-268 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.032 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hominin sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy Giovanni Muttoni a,⁎, Giancarlo Scardia b, Dennis...University of Milan, via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133 Milan, Italy, & ALP — Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism, via...Madonna dei Boschi 76, I-12016 Peveragno (CN), Italy b Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia...di Milano-Pavia, via Bassini 15, I-20133 Milano, Italy c Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers...La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received |  | Biagioni, Cristian, Orlandi, Paolo, Pasero, Marco, Nestola, Fabrizio, Bindi, Luca (2014) Mapiquiroite, (Sr,Pb)(U,Y)Fe2(Ti,Fe3+)18O38, a new member of the crichtonite group from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 26 (3) 427-437 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2014/0026-2382 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the crichtonite group from the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy CRISTIAN BIAGIONI1,*, PAOLO ORLANDI1,2, MARCO...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: biagioni@dst.unipi...Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova...Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy 4 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze...Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy Abstract: Mapiquiroite, (Sr,Pb)(U,Y)Fe2(Ti,Fe3þ)18O38, |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | CREDITO LOMBARDO, AG ENCY E. ACCO UNf 6908/4, MILANO, ITALY. -Please send COPY of your remittance document whit...nel Media Evo come testimoniato dall'esistenza a Massa Marittima, capoluogo dell a zona mineraria, del...a circa il Km. 30,800 e quindi la S.S. 441 per Massa Marittima Risalendo, al primo bivio, verso il paese...riscaldamento per compressione adiabatica, questa enorme massa d'aria non esufficiente nella stagione calda a raffreddare...contrariamente agli altri g iacimenti di pirite dell'area di Massa Marittima-Boccheggiano in cui ii contenuto di questi |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | examined: White alabaster, Castelino, Italy. White marble, Carrara,Italy. Black Belgian marble ("Noir fin")...Rockland, Province of Quebec, Canada. Sandstone, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Granite, Baveno, Italy. Olivine...Olivine diabase, Sudbury, Province of Ontario, Canada. For the purposes of comparison experiments were also...characterof these four rocks only. Alabaster,Castelino, Italy.-Under the microscope the rock is seen to be composed...dolomite, numerous small crystals and grains of magnetite, and a few grains of pyrite are also present. |  | Spagnuolo, Elena, Plümper, Oliver, Violay, Marie, Cavallo, Andrea, Di Toro, Giulio (2016) Dislocation Motion and the Microphysics of Flash Heating and Weakening of Faults during Earthquakes. Crystals, 6 (7) 83 doi:10.3390/cryst6070083 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, Italy; andrea.cavallo68@gmail.com (A.C.); giulio.ditoro@manchester...Università di Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences...fault rocks. Experiments were conducted on pre-cut Carrara marble (99.9% calcite) cylinders using a rotary...to High Velocity Apparatus, [43] HP-HT of Rome, Italy), a high velocity rotary shear 2. High Speed Frictionlaboratory...velocity selectedrotary Carrara marble (s769, 99% calcite) of the INGVstress of Rome, Italy), a high shear machine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | periclase in carbonatites implies that Mg-rich magnetite or Mg silicates (at higher SiO2 activities) precipitate... Degassing (reaction 1) and fractionation of magnetite and forsterite, for example, can increase the...burbankite (Brb)— eitelite (Eit)—calcite inclusion in magnetite (Mgt) from calcite carbonatite; Sallanlatvi, Russia...the groundmass consists of calcite, apatite and magnetite; Kaiserstuhl, Germany (SB 1.5 mm). d Rounded autoliths...disaggregated autoliths of cumulate calcite, magnetite and apatite in Pleistocene extrusive carbonatite |  | | Report (chapter) | | absence of high quality limestones such as those from Italy or Portugal so often used in European baroque monuments...2697 0.36 2672 1.19 Amarelo de Negrais† 2722 – Carrara‡ Limestones and 2792 0.51 § marbles Water Absorption...carbonates, amphiboles, oxides such as hematite and magnetite and sulfides, such as pyrite and chalcopyrite...feature greater, lesser or no amounts of carbonate, magnetite, epidote and tourmaline. Some contain garnet,...COSTA Muscovite-chlorite-quartz schist with magnetite, either dispersed or concentrated in thin bands |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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...Iceland spar Fluorite Apatite Diopside 3 4 5 5.5 Magnetite Pyrite Quartz Garnet 5.5-6.5 6-6.5 7 6.5-7.5...selected. These, together with an octahedron of magnetite from Mineville, New York, were embedded in alum...recrystallized under conditions of differential pressure. Magnetite.-A perfectly symmetrical octahedron of this species |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and associated pegmatite dikes in the Blue Ridge Province of western North Carolina comprise the Spruce...contains quartz, albite, microcline, biotite, magnetite, hornblende, apatite, zircon, and monazite. Hornblende...qtz-mnz fractionation. In the first two experiments, Carrara Marble calcite (δ18O = 29.1‰ SMOW) was ground together...Quartz Albite Chlorite Monazite Biotite Garnet Magnetite αqtz-mnz Estimated T (°C)† DW-18 9.58 – – 7.92...Starting material (Carrara) 29.1 7.9* 1.0210 Carrara (13 h) 14.8 9.5† 1.0053 Carrara (22.5 h) 11.6 9.8† |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | marble (Heard 1963; Heard and Raleigh 1972) and Carrara marble (Covey-Crump 1997; de Bresser et al. 2001;...creep 10 Solnhofen syn. (RES02) syn. (FWD04) Carrara Yule Mgcc-20 Mgcc-40 Mgcc-60 Mgcc-70 Mgcc-80 Diff...al. 2002 (RES02); Freund et al. 2004 (FWD04)); Carrara marble (CoveyCrump 1997 (147 lm); de Bresser 2002...calcite rocks: Large strain torsion experiments on Carrara marble. J Struct Geol 26(5):885–903. doi:10.1016/j...from midcrustal levels—Tuscan nappe, n-apennines, Italy. J Struct Geol 14(2):181–192. doi:10.1016/0191-8141(92) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrences include the old Heath farm, the Kimzey magnetite mine, and several rutile prospects in the northeast...of the cove, including the former site of the Magnetite Rutile Company, Perovskite Hill (exceptional cyclic...Graubunden Iragna and Lodrino, Tessin, Switzerland. In Italy, fine prismatic crystals to several centimeters...cavities in various quarries in the Carrara, Tuscany district, Italy. Good pocket rutile has been found...Stewartstown, Pennsylvania; and Renato Pagano, Cinisello, Italy. REFERENCES Brown, D. L., and W. E. Wilson. 2001 |  | | Journal (issue) | | T O N E S left: Black marble from ancient Rome {Italy). z Below: The brand names of certain gem specimens...The most famous and valuable form is Carrara marble from Italy: this beautiful, creamy variety is used...Agra (I ndia); Conn emara (Irel and); Carrara and Siena (Italy); Teca li (M exico); Bergen (Norway);...crystals of bismuthinite from Brosso, near Turin (Italy). Note the visible lines of cleavage. ' USES OF...bismuthinite crystals from a mine at Brosso, near Turin (Italy). TESTS AND TREATMENT Right: Further specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | Age and correlation.________________________ Carrara Formation____________________________ Nopah Fo... View of Bonanza King and Nopah Formations in Carrara Canyon, Bare Mountain.__ ____________-__--_-----_2...found in the underlying Daylight and overlying Carrara Formations. Thus, the quartzite itself must be...the Daylight Formation. CABBABA FOBMATTON The Carrara Formation crops out only in the southwest and northeast...clayey or silty. The age of the lower part of the Carrara Formation has been well established in the Bare |  | | | | black crystal of augite (a pyroxene) comes from Italy. Augite crystals are found in various igneous rocks...olivine sand comes from Raasay, Scotland; the magnetite-bearing sand is from Tenerife, an island off the...northwest coast of Africa. de Dark olivine sand ; Magnetite-bearing sand Black volcanic ash beach on north...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 |
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