Fossil Coral Dangle Earrings, Sterling Silver, Cream Brown Oval Cabochon, Natural Gemstone, Handmade Jewelry

These natural fossilized coral cabochons have a cream and warm brown surface covered in dense, irregular spotting. The pattern shifts in density from one area to the next, radiating outward in places in a way that hints at the original structure underneath. What the eye reads as texture is actually a record: the cellular architecture of coral that was alive millions of years ago, preserved in agate when silica-rich water moved through the original material and replaced it, molecule by molecule, over geologic time.

These oval cabochons were chosen for the clarity and evenness of that patterning and for the warm, neutral palette. The spotting is dense enough to be graphic but varied enough to stay interesting across the full surface of each stone.

Each stone sits in a sterling silver bezel. A small textured open circle sits above each bezel, flanked by two silver spheres where the loop meets the stone. 

Hallmarked Blue Piranha and .925. Earrings measure 1½ inches (3.8 cm) long from the top of the ear wire, and ½ inch (1.3 cm) wide. Set on sterling silver ear wires.

A lever back option is available, please see photos and note your preference at checkout.

Your purchase arrives gift boxed, presented in a soft pouch with a story card.

Good for: a gift for the friend who collects things with a story. The naturalist, the geologist, or the history lover. The woman who prefers nature to make her art.

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About Fossilized Coral:

Fossilized coral occurs when ancient coral reefs are buried under sediment and silica-rich groundwater moves through the original material over millions of years, gradually replacing the coral with agate. This is the same process that produces petrified wood, and the coral's cellular structure, the physical record of how it grew and what lived inside it, is preserved in the replacement mineral with remarkable fidelity. The result is a stone that carries the pattern of something that was alive hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossilized coral is found in several locations worldwide, with notable deposits in Indonesia, the United States, and parts of Africa. Each stone is a cross-section of a reef that no longer exists.