Red Verona marble

Column-bearing lions in Red Verona Marble. Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo.

Red Verona Marble is a variety of limestone rock which takes its name from Verona in northern Italy.

It includes internal skeletons of ammonites and belemnoidea rostra in a fecal pellets matrix. It has been quarried from Red Ammonitic facies of Verona or the sedimentary Scaglia Rossa, both in the Lessinia geographical area of the northern Veneto Prealps.

References

Korus, Jesse T., ed. (Sep 2014). Geologic Field Trips Along the Boundary Between the Central Lowlands and Great Plains: 2014 Meeting of the Gsa North-Central Section (Field Guide). Geological Society of America. p. 47. ISBN 978-0813700366. Retrieved 26 April 2015.

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