Live session #21 Agate

Rolf 27 September 2024

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Recorded live session in which I discuss and show examples of the colorful mineral agate. Agate is a banded variety of chalcedony, which in turn is a variety of the mineral quartz. Featured are known growth forms of agate, in cavities/geodes in volcanic rocks and in thundereggs or lythophyses. I further show, among other things, examples of iris agate, crazy lace agate, Trümmer Achat, Botswana agate, Black Forest agate, breccie agate and the unusual angular polyhedron agate.

In live session #3, agate was already briefly discussed as one of the different types of quartz.

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Tags: agate, Black Forest agate, Botswana agate, breccie agate, crazy lace agate, iris agate, polyhedron agate, quartz, thunderegg, Trummer achat

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