Quartz

specimen number:
2062441

location:
Wisconsin-Minnesota, USA

description:
An attractive set of Lake Superior agate's. Most of these have been polished in certain places. The size provided is the size of the box. Collected in throughout the 1950s.

Lake Superior agates formed approximately 1.1 billion years ago when volcanic activity created gas cavities in basaltic lava flows, which were subsequently filled by silica-rich fluids to create their signature colorful, concentric bands. Millions of years later, during the Pleistocene ice ages, advancing glaciers eroded these host rocks and widely scattered the durable agates across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan, where rock collectors discover them today.

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