FOSSIL MARBLE TABLETOP. ...

Description

FOSSIL MARBLE TABLETOP
Agoniatites sp.
Devonian
Sahara Desert, near Talmud, Morocco
The scattering of various sections of Agoniatites ammonite remains provide the highlights of this impressive fossil marble slab, creating the same inexplicably uncanny beauty as some of man's own works of abstract art. Their striking gray and white shades contrast sharply and pleasingly with the surrounding gray and red marble, itself swirling with patterns and the hints of further ammonite shells and orthoceras cones. This majestic natural canvas has been sliced, trimmed and highly polished to a lustrous, flush finish, and measures 45 x 25¾ inches.

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