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Temporal Glutch Agates Temporal Glutch, Patagonia, Arizona |
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The agates were discovered by accident while investigating the reported site of quartz lined geodes at Temporal Glutch, Patagonia, Arizona. I was trying to find out what kind of nodules those geodes are and they're amygadaloids. The agates are very small and rarely solid and I was able to trace the small agates to the basalt host where I found in-situ orangish agate. The colors tend to be just white to tan with some purplish and reddish hues. I found only one that is orange. I hope to come back to do more exploring of that basalt bed. The interesting thing is that some of those agate nodules contain root beer colored quartz (citrine or smokey quartz?!?!), and few geodes with scepter quartz crystals also have been found. It would be better to just grind down the agate nodules than cutting them in order to get a good agate patterns without exposing the quartz/calcite cores. |
January 2007 |
January 2007 |
With Root Beer colored quartz cores January 2007 |
January 2007 |
