Sulfur with aragonite Agrigento Sicily

sulfur

aragonite

in plaster

glows reddish pink under long-wave UV light

Agrigento

Province of Agrigento

Sicily

is supposedly sedimentary at the end of the Miocene

about 6 million years ago due to the evaporation of the

Mediterranean have been formed

Tertiary Age Messin / Miocene

Size: approx. 23 x 10 cm

Height about 16 cm

Weight: approx. 4700 gr

extinct locality

Beautiful collector's stage with sulfur crystals

and small aragonite hedgehogs

rarely found site