Polished Marble Bar Chert MB107 oldest agate in the world Desert Sunset is a banded

Desert Sunset is a banded iron formation that is comprised of alternating layers of red and yellow jasper and chert with narrow bands of black hematite

Age is Palaeoproterozoic (1

SU182  Sunset Jasper slab

Weighs 500 grams

Dimensions at widest points approximately 180 mm x 150 mm x 55 mm thick

Polished Marble Bar Chert MB107 oldest agate in the world Desert Sunset is a bandedMB107 Marble Bar Chert. Cut and polished on one side with a rough, natural back. Dimensions at widest points approximately 105 mm x 60 mm x 50 mm thick. Weighs 520 grams. Marble Bar chert is a finely banded, iron rich silica rock from the Marble Bar Chert Member (Warrawoona Group) of Western Australia. Formed in shallow Archean seas, it dates to the Paleoarchean (~3. 46 billion years old), making it one of the Earths oldest well preserved sedimentary