Porphyry
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Description:
A sample of brown quartz porphyry with tan phenocrysts collected from the Temple of Neptune in Paestum, Italy, c. 1909.
- Site: Europe; Italy; Campania
- Site Number: NH8Fc
- Dimensions: H-4.001 W-5.001 D-3.101 cm
- Rock type: Igneous
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Igneous Rock
- Object Id: GR923
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