1.9" Realistic, Polished Agate Skull

This is a 1.9" long polished skull that was carved from agate. The agate has been meticulously sculpted and polished into the shape of a skull.

Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Chalcedony var. Agate
LOCATION
Unknown
SIZE
1.9" long, 1.4" tall, 1.3" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#116837