Ocean Jasper
Collection Cochise College
Ocean Jasper
Collection
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Ocean Jasper Photos
A Tribute to a Highly Varied Gemstone
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last edited: 11/2/07 number of photos: 91
Any photo that you click on is an amazing
pattern.
Ocean jasper is a silicified obsidian or rhyolite.
The small orbs are related to
lithophysae.
View of an unaltered spherulitic obsidian
This gem material comes from the northwestern
coast of Madagascar.
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Photos are copyright free for
non-commercial educational uses.
Just credit photos to R.Weller/Cochise
College.
copyright 2007-R.Weller
Roger Weller,
geology instructor (
wellerr@cochise.edu
)