Once called the Priday Beds, the Blue
Beds, Red Beds, Pony Butte, Kennedy and Moss-Plume
Beds are owned by Richardsons. The ranch is one of most
well-known thunderegg sites which people have been visiting
for
many decades and it helps that the thundereggs are made the
State
Rock
of Oregon. They may be most common encountered and most
studied
thundereggs
anywhere and yet, best specimens don't come out easily as in
case of elusive Priday Plume Eggs. The good specimens would
show contrasting
bands/layers of white, gray and black colors with some
splash of colors such as red, deep blue,
black, and yellow. Many thundereggs are also known to
contain white to
brown (sometimes red) moss/plume structures made of the
minerals that
have
grown first before being preserved by agate.
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Red & Blue Beds
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Moss & Plume
Beds
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Rough Appearance: Oval thundereggs with
geometric ridges,
sometimes missing rhyolitic top & bottom caps, can
be in clusters.
White opal "waterlines" are norm in the thundereggs, but
colorful
banded
and waterlines agates can be found, often with weird
inclusions.
It should be noted that the thick caps are the top and
bottom of the
thundereggs and "waterlines" are parallel to the caps.
Difficult to distinguish between the uncut thundereggs
of Blue and Red
Beds. Those from Moss & Plume Beds are more compact
and rougher.