This is for 1-Shell - cut in half and semi polished- you get one similar or the same as the ones shown, from Madagascar. You can use it in your art and much more. Photographed by an inch ruler.
Fossils- though this is a wide subject to place in one category, it is worth mentioning. fossil literally means "dug up", and is the word for mineralized remains of living organisms from past geological eras. due to the strong life force that is preserved in fossils, holding fossils while meditating can be uplifting when this stored information is tapped. In addition io this, the material preserving and replacing the fossil has its own energetic impact. They also provide a natural link for those wishing to develop conscious bonding with archetypal aspects of plant, animals and humans.
For scientists, the greatest story ever told is preserved in the fossil record, and paleontologists seek to tell that story with as much drama, eloquence and willing suspension of disbelief as can be found in any movie theater or great religious book. Fossils help to identify the age of rocks widely separated from each other, because the succession of flora (plants) and fauna(animals) has been described and formalized. A great deal of information about the earth's crust has been obtained through the study of fossils or paleontology. Paleontology has three separate branches as may be predicted: paleobotany (plants), paleozoology (animals) and paleoanthropology (humans). Fossils justly can be called the record of living organism response to the life force or light energy. As described by Arthur M. Young, light is first cause. It is the organizing principle of universal life which cannot be separated into smaller pieces. He says there are seven stages to light, a prime concept of most spiritual traditions. Young says the cause of consciousness is light photons from which nuclear particles and atoms derive. Atoms crystallize into molecules (minerals), and light bounces off this firm foundation to return to itself first through plants, then animals, then humans. The total freedom of light descends into physical form and complete constraint to return again to enlightenment and total freedom through living organisms. Earth holds witness within herself of this progression from light to materiality to light through the fossil record. Fossils are the ancient library of how life responds to light.
Mineralization is the most common form of fossil preservation, and this involves mienral replacement of living parts or filling of spaces. Carbonization occurs in anaerobic or oxygen depleted environments where the organisms give up oxygen and nitrogen to bacteria leaving carbon-rich deposits of coal and oil. At 270 million years of age, a period was specifically named carboniferous, in the Upper Paleozoic era, to describe the world's fossil energy resources. Fossil encrustation occurs when organisms are coated, leaving a negative impression, and distillation involves depletion of volatile elements, leaving a thin film of carbon showing the form of the organism (1st, grounding and bonding)