Marmo di Candoglia

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Représentation et statut

Couleur CMYK
(0%,0%,0%,100%)
Couleur RGB
R: 50 G: 150 B: 200
Rang
unité lithostratigraphique
Usage
Ce terme est en usage.
Status
terme local (informel)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Candoglia-Marmor
Français
Marbre de Candoglia
Italiano
Marmo di Candoglia
English
Candoglia Marble
Origine du nom

Candoglia (Italia), Valle d'Ossola ; cf. wikipedia

Variantes historiques

Marmore von Candoglia (Papageorgakis 1959, Papageorgakis 1962), marmo rosa di Candoglia = marmo di Candoglia (Dal Piaz et al. 1992a), Ossola marbles = Candoglia and Ornavasso marbles (Cavallo et al. 2004)

Description

Description

Dal Piaz et al. 1992a p.96: [...] marmo rosa di Candoglia, coltivato dalle impervie paretti della bassa Val d'Ossola ad esculsivo uso della costruzione del Duomo di Milano ed ora dei suoi periodici restauri.

Géographie

Extension géographique
Bassa Val d'Ossola.

Références

Révision
Cavallo A., Bigioggero B., Colombo A., Tunesi A. (2004) : The Verbano Cusio Ossola province: a land of quarries in northern Italy (Piedmont). Per. Mineral. 73, 197-210

p. 206: The Ossola marbles are now exploited in two peculiar areas: Candoglia-Ornavasso and Crevoladossola. The Candoglia and Ornavasso marbles are calcite-rich; they are lenses interlayered within the kinzigites of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Southern Alps. They respectively occur in the eastern and western steep slope of the lower Ossola Valley with a sub-vertical attitude and small thickness (8-30 m).
In the Candoglia marble, structural studies evidenced isoclinal folds, with subvertical axial plane parallel to the main foliation, which connect the different small lenses (Fig. 6). The lenses crosscut the valley within a restricted band of few hundred of metres with a discontinuous appearance. [...]

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