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Summer 2024 Treasures from The Carver Agate Field

Summer 2024 Treasures from The Carver Agate Field

I hope you are having a great summer. Here’s what I’ve been working on lately. Enjoy! Rock #5584 Rock 5584 is a “deep pit” blue banded agate with a euhedral quartz center with an odd single white band of fortification agate around a tiny geode cavity. The “deep pit” (so named by me) was the subject of a Rock and Gem Magazine article which you can read on this website. Just click the link. Rock #5580 Rock 5580 is a yellow banded agate with sagenitic inclusions on the right side of the stone. It is interesting how often banded agates appear with the inclusions of sagenitic material. Rock #5598 Rock 5598 is a sagenitic agate which illustrates the considerable amount of sagenitic inclusions to be seen in The Carver agates. Rock #5591 Rock 5591 is a rare stone with a pink banded agate center surrounded by euhedral quartz and an […]

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New Carver Report: Bullfrog Agate from Texas

New Carver Report: Bullfrog Agate from Texas

Bullfrog Agate, named by me, reflects the specific single and small location where this unique agate is found on The Carver Agate Field, located near Alpine, Texas. Bullfrog Agate has a formative process which is different from the geodes, nodules, agates and jaspers found throughout The Carver. Bullfrog Agate is characteristically identified by the soft white rind almost always surrounding a dazzlingly diverse array of colors and agate forms, which contain highly varied and spectacular sagenitic material. For the full geological report and many more photos of this rare and fascinating agate, see Bullfrog Agate Report, the latest of the Carver Reports.

From Western Europe to Northport, Maine

From Western Europe to Northport, Maine

Eons ago, the featured stone was part of western Europe. It was part of the European plate which, according to plate tectonic scientists, crashed into the North American plate. When this occurred, a small portion of the European plate broke off and was left stranded. It attached to the North American plate when the two plates subsequently parted again. This plate movement slowly increased the distance between Europe and North America, which created the Atlantic Ocean. As these plates continued to move apart, there was a ripping of the ocean floor in the Atlantic, which explains the volcanic activity that is still going on in Iceland and the mid-Atlantic Ocean area. Amphibolite / Rock #5142 So……what about this stone? The featured stone is from that part of the European crustal plate which rammed into what is now Northport, Maine, where my son Josh lives and I have a small camp. […]

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