P number: | P576068 |
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Caption: | Marble specimen. Calabria, Italy. Pallizzi Quarries, Calabria, Italy. |
Description: | Label name: Calabria, Italy. Alternative name: Agrillei. Specimen description: Red/brown, orange and white fragments-veins. Anselm Odling. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 317 AGRILLEI. Pallizzi Quarries, Calabria. This specimen is an example of the dark variety of Calabresian Marble. It is composed of reddish brown and orange-coloured brecciated fragments, in a greyish brown matrix. |
Date taken: | 01/01/2004 |
Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
Orientation: | Square |
Size: | 211.78 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Stone and the built heritage (Building Britain) |
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