Painting natural landscapes in agate stones

Many agate stones have a pattern of mountains and trees like landscape paintings.

Landscape painting in agate stones

According to Amusing Planet, agate stone is a micro-crystalline variant of silica .The composition of this rock is mainly chalcedony, including many small alternating quartz and moganite beads.(Photo: Tumblr).

Agate is mainly formed in volcanic rocks due to silica deposition from groundwater seeping through the rocks.(Photo: Flickr).

Over time, silica material layers accumulate and gradually fill the cavity.(Photo: Overblog).

The layers of materials often have small differences in mineral composition and purity, giving the layered agate stone.(Photo: Nikon Small World).

It is the classification that has created many agate stones with interesting colors and patterns.(Photo: Show me rockhounds).

Sometimes, agate stone patterns look similar to natural scenes like mountains, sky, rivers, trees. These agate stones are called "landscape stone agate" .(Photo: Show me rockhounds).