3.4" Polished Banded Agate Nodule - Kuhn Quarry, Germany

Polished Banded Agate Nodule - Kuhn Quarry, Germany #243640

This is a polished section of a banded agate nodule collected from Kuhn quarry in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. This specimen is from an old collection. The quarry has been closed for 15 years, making it more difficult to acquire this material. The "face" of this specimen has been polished while the opposite end has been left rough.

Comes with an acrylic display stand.

Agate is a variety of microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony) that displays translucence and in some cases banding. Agate primarily forms when silica-rich fluids fill pockets within rock and/or fossils, resulting in deposition of the silica along the walls of the rock. This process can result in banding patterns as the composition and impurities of the fluids change over time. These banding patterns can either form as flat layers or rounded layers, depending on the surfaces available for deposition.

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