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5.6" Carved, Strawberry Quartz Crystal Skull - Madagascar
This is a 5.6" long, polished strawberry quartz skull from Madagascar. This skull has been sculpted and polished from a larger chunk of strawberry quartz. Strawberry quartz earns it's color from iron oxide inclusions within the quartz.
About Quartz
Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
SPECIES
Quartz var. Strawberry
LOCATION
Madagascar
SIZE
5.6" long, 4.3" tall, 3.7" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#108777
