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Dolostone from
Carbocalcio Quarry (Marmorea Quarry; San Lorenzo quarry), San Lorenzo, Valdieri, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Dolostone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolostone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carbocalcio Quarry (Marmorea Quarry; San Lorenzo quarry), San Lorenzo, Valdieri, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1477786
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1477786:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Dolostone
68.6km (42.6 miles) ⓘToirano cave system, Toirano, Savona Province, Liguria, Italy
81.9km (50.9 miles) ⓘGuano Cave, Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne, Grasse Arrondissement, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
92.2km (57.3 miles) ⓘNortheast slope, Mont Chaberton, Montgenèvre, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
References
Franchi, Secondo (1926) Passaggi graduali a forme cristalline, calcescistose e marmoree, del Nummulitico e del Cretaceo fossiliferi, nelle Valli del Gesso e della Stura di Cuneo. Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, serie 6, Rendiconti, Classe di scienze fisiche matematiche e naturali, 3, 257–261
Malaroda, Roberto (1957) Studi geologici sulla dorsale montuosa compresa tra le basse Valli della Stura di Demonte e del Gesso (Alpi Marittime). Memorie degli Istituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell’Università di Padova, 20, 1–130
Carraro, Francesco, Dal Piaz, Giorgio Vittorio, Franceschetti, Bortolo, Malaroda, Roberto, Sturani, Carlo, and Zanella, Eugenio (1970) Note illustrative alla Carta Geologica del Massiccio dell’Argentera alla scala 1:50.000 di R. Malaroda. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 9, 557–663
Barale, Luca (2014) The Meso-Cenozoic stratigraphic succession adjoining the Argentera Massif: stratigraphic, sedimentologic and diagenetic evidence of syndepositional tectonics. Thesis. Università degli Studi di Torino, Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze della Natura e Tecnologie Innovative Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Torino, 240 pp.
Bertok, Carlo, Barale, Luca, D’Atri, Anna, Martire, Luca, Piana, Fabrizio, Rossetti, Piergiorgio, Gerdes, Axel (2019) Unusual marbles in a non-metamorphic succession of the SW Alps (Valdieri, Italy) due to early Oligocene hydrothermal flows. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 108(2), 693-712
 
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