agates in English

noun
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an ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony, typically banded in appearance.
Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate , carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.

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2. Agates

3. Pictures of Agates & Almost Agates Black River Rec Area Beach

4. Spendlove (1979) illustrates Agates – e.g., ruin Agates – upon which art work has been painted

5. Here at Baby Ray's Big Agates we specialize in Lake Superior Agates over one pound

6. The island where Theophrastus was born produced Agates several hundred years before Agates sourced from Sicily

7. Agates have alternating bands of colors …

8. A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; Agates - definition of Agates by The Free Dictionary.

9. Structures Where Agates Are Formed in Voids

10. This is the first book on copper Agates

11. Raw Agates From Agate Beach in Trinidad, California

12. Part 1, Lake Superior Beach Rocks & Agates

13. Brooch Faux Connamara Agates and Cairngorm Stone Traditional Sgian Dubh

14. Agates are formed in voids, most often in volcanic rocks

15. The book describes: Names of Agates--mineralogical, geological, local, trade, trivial; Properties of Agates--e.g., color, wall-banded, level-banded, cracked, thunder eggs

16. Agates can have many distinctive styles and patterns, but each Agate is unique in its own habit, with no two Agates being the same.

17. Agates were known long before in Egypt and the Near East

18. This is a particularly beautiful book, with a great many photos of the different types of fortification and other Agates that characterize Lake Superior Agates

19. The fire Agates are found south of Arizona whereas Laguna Agates are prevalent in Estacion Ojo Laguna, in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico

20. Agates can show a wide variety of vivid, multiple colors.

21. Click here for an entire page devoted to more Agates and jaspers

22. Agates honor Aurora, Roman Goddess of the Dawn and Mother of the Winds

23. Painters have also used other Agates as backgrounds for their paintings.

24. All Agates feature bands of colors with only a few exceptions

25. Agates here are uncommon but not rare, same as down there in Whitbey

26. The Oregon Agate and Mineral Society (Map, 1971) suggested that botryoidal Agates and moss Agates of several colors were found here in volcanic rocks of the John Day Formation of Miocene Age

27. The Agates images give measurements of their sizes and indicates the mine where found.

28. We found many Agates and pieces of petrified wood on this one

29. If you are serious about the very early history of Agates, you’ll find

30. Lake Superior Agate Agates 3+LB'S "B" GRADE POLISHED EYES' Minnesota Gemstones

31. Matching words include abates, acates, acutes, agates, alates, amates, aretes, Axites, azotes and bastes

32. Agates honor Bona Dea, the Roman Earth Goddess of Fertility and the Greek Goddess of Women

33. Most agates form as nodules in stratified deposits of silica found in certain rock cavities.

34. Apr 4, 2016 - Explore Judy Clare's board "Fairburn Agates", followed by 131 people on Pinterest

35. Want to See More Agates - Go Here for pix from the Lake Superior Agate Museum.

36. The lovely color patterns and banding make this translucent gemstone very unique. Agates can have many distinctive styles and patterns, but each Agate is unique in its own habit, with no two Agates being the same.

37. Agates are easier to identify when wet, good thing you’re looking next to the largest body of fresh-water in the world! The best time to look for Agates is after a storm or an exceptionally windy and wavy day on the lake

38. Agates, jaspers, and other stones that just don't quite fit into some of the neat categories above

39. The luxurious range of products was derived from semi-precious stones (amethysts, prehnites, turquoises, agates, lapis lazuli....

40. Dryhead" Agates, with their gorgeous colors and patterns locked inside the surrounding nodules, are prized by Agate collectors.

41. According to Pliny the Elder, red agates veined with white were found in the vicinity of Thebes.

42. Eye Agates, especially those with dark centers, were used for the eyes in carvings of idols, particularly in ancient Egypt

43. Agates is a comprehensive, easy-to-use identification guide and a worldwide listing of where they are found

44. Agates in Nebraska formed in Pennsylvanian sediments and were transported from the Hartville uplift in Wyoming in the Oligocene

45. The Lake Superior agate differs from other Agates found around the world in its rich red, orange, and yellow coloring

46. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of Carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones

47. The Amygdaloidal agates were formed by filling in the gas cavities within the dark colored basalt and andesite lava rocks

48. She shone like the sun, sparkled like frazil ice, adorned with seaside agates all her creations, her conversations, her outpourings.

49. More pictures and descriptions of other types of rocks found on Lake Superior beaches plus a few pix of Lake Superior Agates

50. Sedimentary Agates are formed in sediments as opposed to being formed by filling cavities in the rock during secondary processes in volcanic rocks