Jasper
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Varieties of jasper
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Red jasper rough, Cave Creek, Arizona
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Dull red jasper veined with white quartz, rough, provenance: uncertain – possibly Crimea or Kyrgyzstan
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Brecciated red jasper tumbled smooth, 1 in (2.5 cm)
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Red-green-and-yellow jasper cabochon, Cherry Creek, China
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Brecciated yellow jasper, cut and oiled
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Green-yellow-and-orange polished jasper boulder, Tropical Parc, musée des mineraux, Saint-Jacut-les-Pins, Brittany
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Green-and-red jasper pebble with areas of grey, translucent chalcedony, Aomori Prefecture, Shichiri Nagahama, Japan
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Cabochon of Tabu Tabu jasper (brecciated, with angular clasts cemented by grey chalcedony) South Africa
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Jasper variety bloodstone, provenance doubtful, possibly Deccan Traps India
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Kaleidoscope jasper rough, Oregon
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Poppy jasper (an orbicular jasper from Morgan Hill, California), rough
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Poppy jasper: small, polished slabs, Morgan Hill, California
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Orbicular "ocean jasper" (not, strictly, a jasper, but a highly silicified rhyolite or tuff) Analalava District Madagascar, polished slab
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Orbicular "ocean jasper", 5 cm (2.0 in), Analalava District, Madagascar
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"Mookaite" (a radiolarian chert from the Windalia Radiolarite Formation, Western Australia), rough
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"Dalmatian jasper" – not a jasper at all but a form of the igneous rock perthite. The black spots are composed of the rare amphibole arfvedsonite (and not, as often claimed, of tourmaline). Polished pebble.
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- Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. .
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 279. .