(11 images, click to zoom) – 180 million year old fossil fern roots from Lune River in southern Tasmania – once part of the Gondwana supercontinent. Fossicking by D and Isla, cutting and polishing by Isla and photography by Tony Bacon. The cells can be seen in the circular or elongated roots and many of the roots have formed into unique agates. These are best of specimens of fossil fern root – often described as the Gustav Klimt of fossil fern root!
I took these for Isla about a year ago and they have finally been printed and published. Each one is intricately mesmerising, 180 million years in the making! Worth zooming in for a closer look 🙂 Thanks for visiting.
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Your title is not over the top, these truly are amazing. I think I could study them for a long time and still find new details.
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Thanks Dan, I haven’t looked at these for a while and was drawn in again as I edited them for the blog tonight. So much detail and little surprises in them, they look like they were imbedded in stone just yesterday!
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These pieces are amazing 👌🏼🌹 first time seeing , admiring view 👍😍🙏🏼🌹
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Thanks, they still blow my mind when looking at them, so well preserved!!
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Yes 👍🏻so true , very rare to see these pieces 🙏🌷😊
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Neat!
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Thanks 🙂
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Wow!
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Thanks Cindy 🙂
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These are incredible! I’ve never seen anything like it and had no idea agates were formed this way. Fascinating fossils! A gem of a post 😉
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I should steal that .. “a gem of a post”, lol, love it, thank you Morgaine 🙂
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Any of these would make great artwork to hang on the wall so they could be admired often.
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For sure! I think Isla is creating a triptych.
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Great! That will be beautiful.
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, my pleasure! They are uniquely different and beautiful.
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Absolutely stunning! They do indeed look like Klimts.
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Thank you 🙂
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Gorgeous colors and shapes, beautiful artwork formations!
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Thank you so much – the agates did most of the work 😉
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There is something about agates. I enjoyed digging thunder eggs back in the 80’s. Nice story and great pictures.
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Thanks Mick, I wonder who came up with the name Thunder eggs!
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I used to wonder about that myself.
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