Tag: Far West Texas

20 Years of Cabbing The Carver Agate Field

20 Years of Cabbing The Carver Agate Field

The best way to explore and enjoy the rocks of The Carver Agate Field of Far West Texas is to view this new photo gallery of nearly 1000 cut and polished cabs from The Carver exclusively found and cut by me. The cutting, polishing, and magnification of photos of these cabs is the most effective way to see the geological wonder of this single West Texas volcanic formation which was described by my late friend, mentor, geologist, and self-described rock enthusiast, Bill Halepeska, of Midland, Texas, who observed that The Carver Agate Field is “the most diverse, colorful, and unique agate find in Far West Texas since the early 1960’s”. Click here to see this new Cabochon gallery, and be sure to check out the recently posted 1300+ photo gallery of rock specimens from The Carver Agate Field! Some samples: Rock #784 Rock #785 Rock #3347 Rock #3819 Rock #3838 […]

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Dust Storm Approaching Over a Far West Texas Mesa

Dust Storm Approaching Over a Far West Texas Mesa

The Dust Storm Rock #5740 This dust storm is seen inside a Carver Agate Field geode which I just cut. See the photos above. The other half of the cut geode, shown in the photo of Rock #5736 below, contains within the “mesa brown blob” a cool but quite unusual outline of a blue fortification agate. Rock #5736 Rock #5743 Rock #5743 above is a beautiful plume agate cab I cut yesterday from a Carver agate. Rock #5743 Enlarged In the enlarged photo above, note the fortification agate lurking at 10 o’clock above and to the left of the yellow plume. Another stone cut from this same plume agate is seen in Rock #5742 below. Rock #5742 Rock #5750 Rock #5750 is a geode that looks likes the same yellow material as seen in the plume agate, but without the tree shape. Rock #5745 Rock #5745 Enlarged Above the crack […]

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