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What is fossil stone?
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Fossil stone isn’t necessarily stone. It’s any natural material that has either formed or changed due to fossilization, which, over millions of years, replaces the organic materials in rock with minerals. The result is a super-hard, totally different object.
1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
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Marquis Collection Fossil Stone Dancer
By Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sculpted dancer made of black fossil stone, put together piece by piece. Hand shaped, then inlaid
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
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Trilobite Fossil Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Genuine Large Trilobite Plaque
250 million Year Bc
Trilobite Form one of the Earliest Know groups of Arthropods
Origin High Atlas Morroco
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Moroccan Prehistoric Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
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Large Fossil Stone Ammonite
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
O/6416 - Large fossil stone shell - Ammonites were predatory Prehistorie cephalopod mollusks which
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Malagasy International Style Natural Sp...
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Vintage Decorative fossil stone Sculpture sculpure, maroccan Orthoceras
Located in Milano, IT
Fluid Shapes - Decorative Organic Art - Moroccan fossil sculpture
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Natural Specimens
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$608 Sale Price
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Stepped Obelisk Fossil Stone Tower
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Egyptian/ Greek Influence
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Late 20th Century Classical Greek Figurative Sculptures
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Stone, Sandstone
Chinese Fossil Stone Snuff Bottle
Located in Chicago, IL
snuff bottle is carved from a conglomerate stone embedded with small fossils and pebbles. The bottle has
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20th Century Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
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Stone


