The Verbano Cusio Ossola province: A land of quarries in northern Italy (Piedmont)

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 73, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 3, 2004, Pages 197-210

  Cavallo, Alessandro ^a   Bigioggero, Biagio ^b,c   Colombo, Annita ^b,c   Tunesi, Annalisa ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Historical use; Ornamental stones; Ossola Valley; Quarries; VCO province

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849111289     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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