Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite! Lapidary Slab! Yellow Jacket and taking precautions to limit

and taking precautions to limit exposure

similar to how a fire opal behaves

and each one would be STUNNING

This is one I've had in my personal collection for a few years now

Photos were taken with the stone wet

Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite! Lapidary Slab! Yellow Jacket and taking precautions to limitApple Valley Jasper is collected from the same location and the popular Apple Valley Agate (Sahara Desert of Morocco), but it is actually a fossil stromatolite! Stromatolites are a form of ocean colonizing bacterial called cyanobacteria that get trapped in sediment layers! Stromatolites are one of the earliest known fossils, and in some locations around the world, they are still being formed! With Apple Valley Jasper, each layer is a unique story, as