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Scientific Data and Facts
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- Coming Soon - the story
behind the gemstone. How it was deposited on the bottom of the Bearpaw Sea
and was covered with highly iron-ion charged sediments and began the 70 million
year journey that resulted in Earth's Oldest and Rarest Gemstone: Ammolite.
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The
Ammonite Placenticeras had the most complex suture lines
of any of
it's brethren. From a straight line on the vertical axis dividing the chambers
of the animal like a wall it becomes infinitely broad as well
as long as becomes the shell covering itself. It is a naturally occuring
graphic demonstration of Chaos Theory that was not lost on early
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The mother-of-pearl (Aragonite) of the Ammonite was comprised
of 20 or 30 layers. When it went through the depositional process
of mineralization that turned into a gemstone the atoms were realigned
slightly allowing
light to penetrate and diffract into it's primary colors .
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