More Agate Close Ups

For today's blog update I decided I wanted to play with my USB microscope camera.  First, here are a few close ups of non-polished Lake Superior agates.

Limonite on the husk...

Artistic fractures...

Nice bands...

Bands with fractures...

More yellow limonite...

Banding with differential erosion..

More nice banding...

The remaining pictures are Brazilian agates.  Mineral includions...

Bands with inclusions...

Flowing bands...

Husk inclusions...

Colorful bands..

Inteesting mineral inclusions on the outside of an agate...

More nice bands..

Red iron inclusions and macro quartz...

Iron oxide inclusions and delicate bands...

Interesting inflow channel...

Iron stained bands...

Unusual agate structure...