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- Title
Using cucumbers to unearth dendritic agates in central India.
- Authors
Weldon, Robert
- Abstract
The article describes the result of an examination of a dendritic agates produced from central India during the reign of Maharaja Chhatrasal in the 1600s. Further analysis shows that these agates, exhibited by Tarun Adlakha of Indus Valley Commerce at the 2008 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, came from flows which erupted at the end of the Cretaceous period, as well as from tributaries of the Narmada River and from gray-green volcanic ash deposits. These agates were described by Adlakha as prime grades, with about 10% considered exceptional and about 5% or less that are dendritic.
- Subjects
NARMADA River (India); INDIA; AGATES; DENDRITES; ADLAKHA, Tarun; CRETACEOUS stratigraphic geology
- Publication
Gems & Gemology, 2008, Vol 44, Issue 3, p262
- ISSN
0016-626X
- Publication type
Article