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We're in love with the art of nature. We especially admire the color and patterns of agate. If you would like to add these aesthetic agates or gemstones to your collection, please contact us.  www.ebay.com/usr/srl_trading
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Several different formations in one - Moss & Banded& Botryoidal Agate

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New Type of Fossilization Revealed by Griffon Vulture Found in Volcanic Ash
A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tiss
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A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tissue structures in unprecedented detail, offering new insights into the fossilisation process. In 1889 in the foothills of Mount Tuscolo, 25km south-east of Rome, farm workers discovered something extraordinary. While digging the ground for a new vineyard, they encountered a layer of bedrock with a strange void. This contained the skeleton of a large bird, including apparent imprints of its plumage on the surrounding rocks.

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Seraphinite

Formed by the alteration of a limestone by hot brines spat out of a cooling iron rich granite that was stewing in its own juices after reaching its buoyancy point in the crust of the Earth in one specific Siberian locality, it was named after the supposedly delicately textured wing feathers of the highest order of angels. The fibres can be cut into catseye stones like this, though it ruins a wonderful and very rare mineral specimen (since it only comes from one place on Earth), something I’m generally against (though for the record, I have nothing against cutting river rolled pebbles and angular cleavage fragments, just lushly formed crystals).

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