Characterisation of the white marble of two unpublished ancient Roman quarries on the Islands ofFourni and Skyros (Greece)

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-62

  Lazzarini, Lorenzo ^a   Cancelliere, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancient quarries; Fourni; Isotopes; Marble; Petrography; Skyros

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041729663     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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