Cava dell'Osa, Osteria dell'Osa, Roma, Lazio, Italia
Abandoned quarry about 18 km from Rome, near Osteria dell'Osa.
A lava flow in the area NNE of the volcano, produced by eccentric vents during the Tusculan-Artemisian period. It consists of melilite leucitite which locally grades into a leucitite nephelinite with melilite and olivine.
References
- Fornaseri, M., and Turi, B. (1969): Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Carbonates in Lavas and Ejectites from the Alban Hills, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 23, 244-256.
- Fornaseri, M., and Turi, B. (1969): Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Carbonates in Lavas and Ejectites from the Alban Hills, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 23, 244-256.
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