Tumbled stones, broken potsherds and discarded tools of rock were discovered as records of their passing.

# Tumbled Rocks Trail (, 45 min.

As a fashion designer, Coco Chanel catered to women ’ s taste for elegance in dress, with blouses and suits, trousers and dresses, and jewellry ( gemstone and bijouterie ) of simple design, that replaced the opulent, over-designed, and constrictive clothes and accessories of 19th-century fashion.

Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely employed in antiquity for intaglio engraved gems.

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Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects.

* Modified Baltic amber – gemstone subjected only to thermal or high-pressure treatment, which changed its physical properties, including the degree of transparency and color, or shaped under similar conditions out of one nugget, previously cut to the required size.

* Reconstructed ( pressed ) Baltic amber – gemstone made of Baltic amber pieces pressed in high temperature and under high pressure without additional components.

* Bonded Baltic amber – gemstone consisting of two or more parts of natural, modified or reconstructed Baltic amber bonded together with the use of the smallest possible amount of a colorless binding agent necessary to join the pieces.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

Transparent amblygonite has been faceted and used as a gemstone.

As a gemstone set into jewelry it is vulnerable to breakage and abrasion from general wear, as its hardness and toughness are poor.

Excellent optical and mechanical properties, combined with efficient marketing, make diamond the most popular gemstone.

Others may ignore traces of oil if the presence of the material does not materially improve the look of the gemstone.

Emerald is a rare and valuable gemstone and, as such, it has provided the incentive for developing synthetic emeralds.

A gemstone or gem ( also called a precious or semi-precious stone, a fine gem, or jewel ) is a piece of mineral, which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.

Rarity is another characteristic that lends value to a gemstone.

A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive grit, in a rotating drum.

The first characteristic a gemologist uses to identify a gemstone is its chemical composition.

Aside from the diamond, the ruby, sapphire, emerald, pearl ( not, strictly speaking, a gemstone ) and opal have also been considered to be precious.

Nowadays such a distinction is no longer made by the gemstone trade.

Some gemstone treatments make use of the fact that these impurities can be " manipulated ", thus changing the color of the gem.

Heat can improve gemstone color or clarity.

Whether a gemstone is a natural stone or a lab-created ( synthetic ) stone, the characteristics of each are the same.

Idaho's nickname is the " Gem State ", because nearly every known type of gemstone has been found here.

It is the official Michigan state gemstone.

Topaz ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > SiO < sub > 4 </ sub >( F, OH )< sub > 2 </ sub >, often found in granitic pegmatites associated with tourmaline, is a common gemstone mineral.

The Codex Mendoza records that the tribute owed by Coixtlahuaca consisted of 2000 blankets ( of 5 types ), 2 military outfits with headresses and shields, green gemstone beads, 800 bunches of green feathers, 40 bags of cochineal dye, and 20 bowls of gold dust.

Mounted on a stone platform, the image of the four armed and crowned goddess is made of gemstone and weighs about 40 kilograms.

The Imperial Crown Jewels of Iran ( alternatively known as the Imperial Crown Jewels of Persia ) includes several elaborate Crowns and decorative Thrones, 30 tiaras and numerous aigrettes, a dozen jewel laden swords and shields, a vast amount of precious unset gemstones, numerous plates and other dining services cast in precious metals and encrusted with gems and several other more unique items, such as a gemstone globe, collected by the Iranian monarchy during its 2, 500 year existence.

The following items are associated with Bṛhaspati: his color is yellow, metal is gold and gemstone is yellow topaz and yellow sapphire.

In Dungeons and Dragons, jacinths are often referred to as an orange gemstone, and used to fulfill that function in " prismatic " magic items, where the color red is represented by rubies.

The Biggs Junction area is well known among rockhounds for being the source of Biggs picture jasper, a semi-precious gemstone.

In nature there are rarely pure hues so when speaking of the hue of a gemstone we speak of primary and secondary and sometimes tertiary hues.

Besides the gemstone varieties that show a play of color, there are other kinds of common opal such as the milk opal, milky bluish to greenish ( which can sometimes be of gemstone quality ); resin opal, which is honey-yellow with a resinous luster ; wood opal, which is caused by the replacement of the organic material in wood with opal ; menilite, which is brown or grey ; hyalite, a colorless glass-clear opal sometimes called Muller's Glass ; geyserite, also called siliceous sinter, deposited around hot springs or geysers ; and diatomite or diatomaceous earth, the accumulations of diatom shells or tests.

and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal.

Her favorite colors are listed as red, pink, orange, and yellow and she likes birds, the flowers orange dandelions and orchids, and the gemstone topaz.

There are very few people working in this field, as this is one of the hardest challenges for any gemstone carver.

Their weapon of choice is the quarterstaff and they are required to have knowledge of gemstone lore.

Poor color is usually not enough to eliminate the use of diamond as a gemstone: If other gemological characteristics of a stone are good, a low-color diamond can remain more valuable as a gem diamond than an industrial-use diamond, and can see use in diamond jewelry.

Despite being less common than most garnets, it is a widely used gemstone with numerous alternative names, some of which are misnomers.

He discovers they are searching for the gemstone called which grants immortality if the water it emits during Volley's Comet is drank.

The swords are usually the same color as the Rider's dragon and have a gemstone of the same color in the pommel, to store energy.