Coral Waves

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Wonderfully fluid and almost 3D, this seems like coral painted from below with sunlight permeating the water, yet it also has a mysterious quality that means you see different things each time you view it.
Such complex formations of banded agates are the result of little understood internal pressures and forces just before the bands crystallise from the liquid silica gel. Here, the agate bands are interspersed by quartz to magical effect.