Uruguay Amethyst Mixed Shapes AM1144 - Mega Dogtooth Calcite Twinning Look at the beautiful sea

Look at the beautiful sea of red as it traverse across the sphere from end to end

Height: 6x5

forming what looks like a heart or a “V”

and that is meaningful to the observer

is a complex structural belt

Uruguay Amethyst Mixed Shapes AM1144 - Mega Dogtooth Calcite Twinning Look at the beautiful seaLocality: Cataln Grande, Artigas Department, Uruguay Dimension: 26. 4x14. 9x12. 0 cm Weight: 3961g About 160 million years ago, when tectonic plates were rifting Africa and South America apart as the Atlantic Ocean opened, one of the worlds great flood basalt events was occurring. Basalts flowed from the rift, producing stratified lava flows thousands of feet thick in Brazil and nearby Uruguay. Within these flows, gas bubbles and lava tubes created