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GeneralLandscape or Picture Agates

20th Apr 2024 21:12 UTCSteve Ewens

I found this image the other day and wanted to invite others to share similar examples.

So, show us what you have!

Steve

23rd Apr 2024 02:22 UTCGregg Little 🌟

This specimen is from the Cape Blomidon area of Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy and is a Late Triassic sandstone with a lovely iron oxide patterning (Liesegang bands). The first picture is of the sample as found on the beach and the second is its "reveal". The owner called it angel wings.

Immediately above this formation stratigraphically are the North Mountain basalts marking the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction event and the start of Pangea's break-up when the future Nova Scotia was still in the interior of the super continent.

23rd Apr 2024 02:24 UTCGregg Little 🌟

And the reveal of the angel wings. Apparently the rock "fell open" on this bedding plane.

25th Apr 2024 03:40 UTCSteve Ewens

Gregg,

A very nice specimen. I have always been fond of "butterflied" pieces.

23rd Apr 2024 06:08 UTCDon Windeler

I don't have many agates that qualify for "landscape" -- think there's one buried in a flat that works if you squint, just don't know if I've got a photograph. This Brazilian guy is always happy to jump into the "picture" discussion, though.

23rd Apr 2024 09:37 UTCBen Grguric Expert

Mount Tamborine, Queensland.

Don't underestimate the value of some of the better examples. Some big money has apparently been paid for picture agates. Rumour is the owner of the famous owl agate refused all offers for it.

23rd Apr 2024 09:51 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager

Steve's original specimen in this thread is really spectacular. To me to looks like a watercolor painting of the view one might see from the entrance of a seaside cave, looking past a jagged rocky beach and across a calm ocean towards the clouds on the horizon. The only thing missing are tiny Mn-oxide seagulls in the sky.

26th Apr 2024 01:49 UTCD Mike Reinke

Yes, Frank, exactly. But I hadn't thought of the Mn+seagulls. Hilarious.

23rd Apr 2024 18:23 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Slight detour in the mineral involved but a scenic one none the less.

Tiffany stone from Spor Mountain Utah. piece is 19x16cm in size.

Traded for the piece a number of years ago.

23rd Apr 2024 18:24 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Back side of same piece.

23rd Apr 2024 18:26 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Here is a smaller Tiffany Stone and it has a ton of different images in it. Piec e is 7x5cm.

23rd Apr 2024 20:48 UTCSteve Federico

Clouds over water.A large agate slab bought years ago.I think from Brazil but not positive.

24th Apr 2024 06:19 UTCChristopher R. Cavey

Chalcedony nodule with an artic scene

24th Apr 2024 07:59 UTCBruce Cairncross Expert

Here's my "talking heads" agate, from the Vaal River alluvial diamond gravels.

25th Apr 2024 04:24 UTCRuss Rizzo Expert

I always thought that this one looked like nighttime on the bayou.

26th Apr 2024 01:50 UTCD Mike Reinke

Or nightmare on the bayou?!

26th Apr 2024 05:43 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager

yeah, there are some creepy Cyclopian eyes staring back out at you from the dark cavernous shadows...

But a wonderful sample!

26th Apr 2024 07:08 UTCRuss Rizzo Expert

Or nightmare on the bayou?!

Good one! :)

25th Apr 2024 07:23 UTCBen Grguric Expert

Some sort of fish? Agate Creek, Queensland.

25th Apr 2024 14:32 UTCSteve Ewens

Some Picture Jasper resembling a playa.

25th Apr 2024 14:33 UTCSteve Ewens

A view from Hart Mountain of the playa I think the specimen resembles.

26th Apr 2024 01:34 UTCGregg Little 🌟

Steve Ewens ✉️

resembling a playa

Steve; The stark white bands remind me of the "bath tub rings" seen in the reservoirs with dramatic low water levels in your country's southwest. Does that make me a glass-half-empty kind of thinker?

26th Apr 2024 17:13 UTCSteve Ewens

Gregg,

I am not sure which view you tend to use the most. The water in the playas and wetlands tend to come and go. However, the general trend has been a drying of the amount of water present. When water is present the amount of migratory birds and other wildlife can be incredible.

26th Apr 2024 07:21 UTCChristopher R. Cavey

Up in the clouds, a Brazilian agate slice from the 1960's

26th Apr 2024 14:17 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager

Portuguese sailing vessel arrive to Yellow sea shore.

26th Apr 2024 17:34 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Pavel,

That is one cool slab!!

28th Apr 2024 21:08 UTCAlex Homenuke 🌟 Expert

Waterfall in the jungle - ocean jasper

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