Aphrodite Marble Photo Gallery
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1. Raw Stone For Sale
2. What Does It Look Like Polished?
3. Aphrodite As Found
RAW STONE FOR SALE
Many fine stones available. Only a few shown in gallery
below. Softball size to Volkswagen. Many
with suggestive shapes. Sawn boulders and slabs also available.
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Aphrodite boulder |
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no fossils - good solid stone |
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Aphrodite boulder |
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classic Aphrodite - fossils |
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Aphrodite boulder |
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no fossils - solid stone |
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Aphrodite boulder |
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Creamy pink - super stone
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Aphrodite boulders - small |
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note suggestive shapes |
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Aphrodite Boulder |
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natural sculpture |
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Small Aphrodite Boulders |
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smaller stones |
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Aphrodite Aphrodite |
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boulder in front of Wrangell, Ak. museum, now polished |
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Aphrodite Boulder
300 lbs. approx. |
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Aphrodite boulder
300 lbs. approx.
view two |
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Large Sawn Aphrodite Marble Slab |
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8' 8" long, 44" wide, 2" thick
three slabs available of this size.
very beautiful stone for very large tables |
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Large Slab for table, bench,...
46"x37"x2.5" - view 1 |
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note fossils one half,
"topographic" other half
$1500 |
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WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE POLISHED?
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Aphrodite Aphrodite
red, green, and
yellow fossils
Nothing Like It |
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Aphrodite Aphrodite
classic Aphrodite - red, green and yellow fossils in creamy-pink background |
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Aphrodite Aphrodite
sometimes she's big hearted - pelecopod (clam) fossils shaped like valentine hearts. |
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Aphrodite Aphrodite
multicolored fossils - red, yellow and green
this fossil 4.5 x 3 inches
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Royal Aphrodite
with bright reds and swirling fossils
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Golden Aphrodite
gold, red, green and grey - warm colors, stromatolite swirls |
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Golden Aphrodite
gold, red, and green - with grey stromatolites and pink stylolites |
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Bare Aphrodite
attractive lines
soft, muted colors
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Almost Bare Aphrodite
One fossil snail
soft creamy pink with stylolites
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Aphrodite
with breccia filled fault fracture
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For photos of finished stone, see Fine Art -
Sculpture,
Functional Art,
Garden Art, and
Engraved Signs and Memorials.
For prices and availability, see Price List.
APHRODITE as found on TUXEKAN ISLAND
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Loose boulders in the duff |
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Location: This marble comes from Tuxekan
Island, Alaska. About half the size of an average American county, Tuxekan
Island is one of the thousand or so islands that comprise the Alexander
Archipelago, the island chain that lies off southeast Alaska's
panhandle. Tuxekan Island has no human population.
Bears are numerous. Aphrodite Marble is accessible only by boat.
A landing craft is used to transport equipment to Tuxekan Island.
A barge carries quarried stone from the island. The marble deposit is within the Tongass National
Forest and is worked under U.S. Forest Service guidelines.
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