The aesthetic properties of ornamental stones, including colour, texture, and the presence or absence discontinuities, are influential in their use marketing. This is particularly critical brecciated rocks such as Marrón Emperador (ME) stone, a dark brown breccia dolostone (Upper Cretaceous, southeast Spain). ME shows high chromatic textural variability, which one its most appreciated commercia...

Climate change is likely to produce more frequent and longer droughts in the Mediterranean region, like that of 1994, which produced important changes in the Quercus ilex forests, with up to 76% of the trees showing complete canopy dieback. At the landscape level, a mosaic of responses to the drought was observed, linked to the distribution of lithological substrates. Damage to the dominant tre...

In the southernmost outcrops of Slovenian Basin Middle Jurassic coarse-grained limestone breccia (mega)beds are interstratified within a succession that is otherwise dominated by hemipelagites and distal turbidites. this paper, these beds described as Ponikve Breccia Member Tolmin Formation. We provide descriptions studied sections with detailed geological maps analysis lithoclasts. From latter...

Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions worldwide display evidence for multiple low-latitude glacial events and continental rifting episodes related to the fragmentation of the supercontinent Rodinia. In Death Valley, eastern California, these events are represented by two intervals of glacial diamictite and two episodes of synsedimentary extensional faulting in the Kingston Peak Formation. Deep...

Four distinct types of fluid inclusion are associated with brecciation, alteration and mineralization in the Ilkwang Cu–W breccia-pipe deposit in the southeastern Kyongsang Basin, South Korea. The earliest fluid inclusions in igneous quartz have salinities of 35–49 wt% NaCl equiv. and homogenize by halite dissolution. This fluid exsolved directly from the melt. A CO2-bearing fluid (2–4 wt% NaCl...