This teardrop pendant contains Rocky Butte Picture Jasper showing an abstract landscape scene created from tan, golden browns, and pink shades of jasper. Topped with a 925 sterling silver bail which allows the full beauty of the stone to show, with a wide opening to allow for most size chains/clasps feed through.
Stone: 25mm x 35mm
With bail: 43mm (about 1.75")
Rocky Butte is a form of picture jasper that is characterized by its earthy tones such as green, brown, yellow, and clay-blue. It is found near the Oregon-Idaho border in the Owyhee Mountains. Picture Jasper, a remarkable form of Jasper (SiO2), is characterized by nature "scenes" and landscape patterns. Its extraordinary color banding and veined flow patterns are created by petrified or silicate mud and sometimes dendritic inclusions. Because of its unique landscape patterns and wide range of colors, Picture Jasper is one of the most sought-after and famous varieties of jasper.