24 July 2010

Agate Picking

My family has gone to pick agates on the beach where Knife River empties into Lake Superior since I can remember coming to Minnesota.

Lake Superior agates are quite different from the standard agate because of the rich iron ore in the bedrock. The iron contributes the rusty tint to the agates, which are the rocks in the pictures below that are opaque and striated.








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