3" Realistic, Carved Strawberry Quartz Crystal Skull

This is a 3" long, polished strawberry quartz skull from Madagascar. This skull has been sculpted and polished from a larger chunk of strawberry quartz. Unlike many of our other crystal skulls, this skull doesn't have a mandible (lower jaw).

Strawberry quartz earns its color from iron oxide inclusions within the quartz.

Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.

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DETAILS
SPECIES
Quartz var. Strawberry Quartz
LOCATION
Madagascar
SIZE
3 x 2.4 x 2.1"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#150988