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5" Carved Black Coquina Stone Turtle - California
This is a gorgeous polished turtle sculpture carved from black and white coquina stone collected in California. This colorful specimen measures 5 inches long and has been polished to a glossy finish to highlight the white shell fragment cross sections.
This stone started out as a silica-rich mud full of accumulated shell fragments known as a coquina. Coquina is actually the Spanish word for cockleshells or shellfish. Coquinas accumulate in high-energy marine environments such as coastlines where currents and waves result in the abrasion, fracturing, and sorting of the shells that compose them. Over time, these shell fragments fossilized and the silica-rich mud turned into a jasper.
