"Gary Green" Petrified Swamp Bog Woolly Mammoth chisel like teeth

chisel like teeth

5 on the Moh's scale

Moldavite is a unique type of Tektite

Colors or inclusions in Quartz are due to the presence of other minerals (particularly iron)

Author Fred Ward notes that pearls were most certainly the world’s first valued gemstone

"Gary Green" Petrified Swamp Bog Woolly Mammoth chisel like teethBetween 11 15 million years ago, during the Miocene time period, a volcano located near what is now called McDermitt, Oregon erupted, spewing ash and debris over a widespread area. That ash, contained a combination of iron, aluminium, potassium, sodium and calcium, which covered everything for miles around, including shallow wetlands. Cattails, fish, amphibians and all other life in those wetlands (bogs) were suffocated by the ash and immediately