Monday, July 30, 2012

The Celebration of Agates International Show -- Post 2

Today I'll post the rest of the pictures from the seminar presentations at the Celebration of Agates Show held this past weekend in Minneapolis, MN.

First, here are some more of the "other" Lake Superior agates from John Marshall's presentation.  When the images were flashing on the screen, I remember thinking that they looked like Tom Shearer photographs.  Tom, as many of you know, was the photographer for my last agate book.  Low and behold, Tom did take the photos.

An incredible tube agate...


This agate is quite confusing...


A candy striper with crystal impressions....


A moss agate....


A brecciated agate with amethyst....


Another tube agate...


A Laker that was influenced by hydrothermal fluids....


A weird eye agate...


A more typical eye agate...


Wowser,..




  Bulls-eye....


Eyes and more eyes...


Intricate and weird...


Candy Striper extraordinaire...


Iris agates...






This incredible agate had some external force (perhaps lava) that altered the color on one end....


Another intricate and nice agate...


Fluorescent agate...


The seminar presenters and topics included:

Doug Moore: The Beautiful and Mysterious Thunderegg
Tarun Adlakha: Indian Dendritic Agates
Thom Lane: Plume Agates of California, Oregon and Idaho
John Stockwell: Thunderegg Agates East of the Mississippi
Gene Mueller: Agate Cave Discovery in Oregon
Dietrich Mayer: Moroccan Agates
Karen Brzys: The Story of Silica--Cosmic Source through Agate Genesis
Jack Hobart: Overview of Lake Superior Agates
Klaus Schaifer: Why is the Monkey in the Agate?
John Marshall: The Other Lake Superior Agates
Wayne Sukow: Iris Agate
Roger Clark: Bounty of the Black Hills -- Fairburn Agate
Dr. Jens Gotze: Between Legend and Science: The Mystery of Agate Formation

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