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(please click image for full view)Title: Agate
Medium: Digital Photography
Photographer: Aaron J. Greenblatt
Camera Type: Panasonic DMC-LZ7 Lumix 7.2 MP
Editing: Edited in PhotoShop 7.0 for color accuracy, size, and to apply copyright and border.
Location: Photograph taken at the 2007 63rd Annual Greater Detroit Gem, Mineral, Fossil & Jewelry Show in Warren, Michigan.
Description: A pretty agate which was on display in a showcase at the show.
About Agate: Agate is a distinctly banded variety of chalcedony which is traditionally defined as a fibrous cryptocrystalline variety of Quartz. More recently, it has been shown that much Chalcedony is a mixture of Quartz and Moganite, another silica mineral. When chalcedony is in flat layers or bands, it is called by the subvariety name Onyx.
Information source:
[link] (mindat.org)
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Comments: 36
Wow! Normally we are more used to seeing quartz crystals inside hollows in jasper, NOT the other way around!.
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Indeed!
Which just makes this specimen all the more interesting I think.
What's also interesting is that this specimen isn't dyed - the color you see is the natural color of the stone. The display case that this specimen was in was full of all sorts of agates and geodes which were also completely natural.
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Yeah it does!
No wonder I keep thinking that it's watching me.
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or maybe the teardrop of sauron, lol.
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Very pretty! The pattern in the white part reminds me of the pattern found in the eye iris.
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beautiful stone...too bad its cracked across the top.
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Thanks.
Yes, it is indeed sad that it's damaged in such a fashion.
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I think agates are always very beautiful! Such stones are common in the Crimea
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It wasn't for sale, just on display.
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Oh, I thought it was yours!
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There are certainly some beautiful patterns in it. A vector version could probably make for a cool logo or emblem.
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