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Heliopora coerulea is the only known octocoral that produces a massive skeleton made of aragonite. While alive, the polyps are brown, but the inner skeleton is a distinctive blue. The species is considered a living fossil because its structure has not significantly changed since the Cretaceous period. Heliopora is found in the Indo-Pacific region, and its fossilized remains are sought after by collectors.
Petrified Wood is fossilized wood - the wood material has been replaced by minerals.
Metaphysical Properties: Strength, grounding, transformation. Aids in accessing past lives.
Corresponding Astrological Sign: Leo
Chakras: 1st Chakra - Root
3rd Chakra - Solar Plexus
In Reiki, it is excellent for use on the back, skeletal structure.
No collection is complete without a Coprolite! Coprolite is fossilized poop! These Coprolites come from Madagascar, and are from the Eocene period (approx. 50 million years old.) They come from prehistoric turtles.
The Orthoceras ranged in size from a few inches in length to over six feet. They could swim as well as crawl on the ocean floor. By filling the chambers in their shells with air they could float through the seas propelling themselves by squirting jets of water. As they died their shells accumulated upon the ocean floor, then covered by sediments they transformed into stone over the ages. Our Orthoceras Fossil specimens are from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and are dated back to the Silurian Age 400 + million years ago.
Gran Chaco, Gualamba, Chaco Argentina
Campo del Cielo means “field of the heavens.”
Found 1576 by the Spanish, actual fall estimated at 4000-6000 years ago.
Type: Iron based meteorite. Octahedrite, coarse (3.0mm) with silicate inclusions (IA)
Analysis of metal: 6.62% Ni, 90.0 ppm Ga, 392 ppm Ge, 3.2 ppm Ir
A mass of 8 tons was found at a depth of 5 meters in crater 10.
Tektites are a super heated glass that is formed from the impact of a meteorite and come from many different sites all over the world.
(also known as pearl of fire) Tektite, Indonesia
Named from the Sanskrit meaning “pearl of the divine fire.” From a meteoric impact that struck the Indonesian archipelago. These are found in the water off the coast of Java.
Metaphysical properties: helps one find the answers within. Activates the solar plexus chakra, the center of your “gut instinct.” Creativity, manifestation, and adventure. Increases confidence in one’s own abilities, and one’s free will to choose the direction in life that brings happiness, strength, and positivity.