CaCO₃ / SiO₂
Fossils
An ammonite’s chamber, once aragonite, often sits now as calcite with the suture lines still drawn.
- Formula
- CaCO₃ / SiO₂
- Mohs hardness
- 3–7
- Crystal system
- organic
- Colour
- many-coloured
- Element
- earth
- Chakra (tradition)
- root
- Zodiac
- Cancer, Capricorn
- Month
- —
- Where the earth keeps it
- Morocco, Germany, United States
What it actually is
Fossils is CaCO₃ / SiO₂ before it is a story. The lattice is organic, Mohs 3–7, and the eye meets many-coloured.
The better pieces still come out of the ground in Morocco, Germany, United States. An ammonite’s chamber, once aragonite, often sits now as calcite with the suture lines still drawn.
What the old tradition whispers
The parlour tradition ties Fossils to earth and to the root centre. The old site stood it near: Cancer, Capricorn.
How not to turn it to ash
Softer than a steel knife. No ultrasonic bath, no acid, no sudden heat. Dust wants a dry cloth.