Gyrolite with Apophyllite

Lonavala, near Bombay, India
Small Cabinet, 8.6 x 5.0 x 2.3 cm
Start Time: 04/04/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/23/2009 8:10:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

This is an old piece from the 1980s, with a very old Smale label but also a style indicative of those quarries closer in to Bombay, now covered by parking lots and shopping malls. It formed as a solid plate, an encrustation upon rock that later popped clean off its host as it grew, and now is a freestanding sculptural daisy chain of interconnected gyrolite balls!

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