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Assograniti Unione Europea Ministero dell'Economia Regione Piemonte Provincia del Verbano Cusio Ossola Confartigianato Novara - Verbano Cusio Ossola
L'ASSETTO GEOLOGICO DELL'AREA


The Verbano Cusio Ossola Province is located in the central western Alps and has had great importance for geological studies about the Alps since the last century.
The Alps are a double-vergent chain : an European one and an African one, the southern Alps divided by an important tectonic line named Lineamento Periadriatico or Insubric Line... L'ASSETTO GEOLOGICO DELL'AREA


Marmo Palissandro bluette

Fine-grained calc-silicate dolomitic marble, characterized by the presence of dolomite and phlogopite. The appearance of the stone is heterogeneous homogeneous texture and poorly defined foliation due to the scarce abundance of phlogopite. Calcite, quartz, plagioclase (An 80-90%), tremolite, sphene, epidote and disseminated sulphides can also be found.
Marmo Palissandro bluette


THE HISTORICAL STONES

 
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