#Carved Coral

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1763724527/antique-hand-carved-shell-cameo-link Antique Hand Carved Shell Cameo Link Bracelet by Giuseppe Mandile Italy

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Cartier Paris, Vanity Case, ca. 1927; Produced by Cartier (Paris, France); Manufactured by Henri Lavabre (French); Lapis lazuli, carved jade, carved ruyi, coral, diamonds, lacquer, mirrored plate glass, gold, platinum; 9.9 × 5.2 × 1.7 cm (3 7/8 × 2 1/16 × 11/16 in.);

Photo: Doug Rosa

Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection features exquisite work from premier jewelry houses of Europe and America – among them Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Lacloche Frères, Boucheron and Bulgari – dating from 1910 to 1938.

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Corail de Méditerranée back in stock in my Etsy shop.

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ANTIQUE CORAL CHERUB PENDANT 14K GOLD

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Necklace Women's Real Coral Pink Of Japan Quartz Citrine Pearl Akoya White ebay teresaesposito

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Animal Fetishes by Lynn Quam

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Carved Shell Cameo Pendant in Sterling Silver

Source:

Independence, MO

Carrell Auctions

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All hail my kickass cat shaped rock shelf

(And yes the bottles are zoisite and kunzite (and yes it's 100% a sailor moon reference))

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something something- the beauty of nature that remains long after the human form has rotted away is more symbolic of sainthood then any statue or figurine

Statue of a saint damaged by the sea air, Parish of St. Hilda, Hartlepool England

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Two new carved horses, a commission for @blue-spectors, granite pebble and coral fossil fragment

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'Beach Coral' wooden spoon carved in Silktree wood with aniline dyes.

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Oh, that's so cool! I wonder if this similarity in environments, and thus similarity in types and distributions of native species, has to do with their similar tectonics histories as well as their similar latitudes!

The west coast of South America is largely an active convergent plate boundary, where the Nazca plate is subducting under the South American plate and forming the Andes mountain range as a volcanic arc right along the coast [1].

Similarly, a good stretch of the northern part of the west cost of North American is an active subduction zone where the Juan de Fuca plate is subducting under the North American plate and forming the Cascades mountain range [2], extending from northern California to southern British Columbia. Until fairly recently in geological time, all (or almost all) of the western North American plate boundary was an active subduction zone (responsible in large part for much of the mountain building which occurred in western North America since the breakup of Pangea). This was when the Juan de Fuca, Explorer, Gorda, Cocos, and Nazca plates were apparently part of one large plate, referred to as the Farallon plate, which has since largely subducted and left only small fragments [3]. Much of the North American western plate boundary is now a transform boundary with the Pacific plate, so much less mountain building is occurring today, but we still have topography that reflects this history quite dramatically as the moutains weather away.

So we see narrow corridors bounded by deep seas on one side, tall young, volcanically active mountains on the other, and similar climates as a function of latitude, perfect conditions for forming geographically isolated regions with lots of precipitation on the coastal sides of the ranges at appropriate latitudes and (geologically) fresh nutrients from weathering of rocks in said ranges. Pretty good environment for speciation, I'd reckon!

I honestly hadn't thought much about the way the similarity between the regions tectonically might interact with their biological and ecological similarity, but it's really cool to think about!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Plate

About the unique ecosystems in narrow corridors along the Pacific coast, and the mirroring of California and Chile:

Really cool how the (arbitrary political) borders of Chile host a total of about 60 amphibian species, but 37 of them are endemic species, all living only within about 100 kilometers of the Pacific coast. “Chile” hosts about 130 reptile species, of which an incredible 81 are endemic, living nowhere else.

Both temperate rainforest and Mediterranean chaparral are rare ecosystems on Earth, and both biomes have relatively mild winter climates comfortable for cold-blooded amphibians and reptiles.

Here you can see amphibian biodiversity is highest in the Valdivian temperate rainforest, while reptile diversity is highest in the Mediterranean chaparral zone.

Here’s the Valdivian temperate rainforest and Mediterranean chaparral zones, just for comparison to the amphibian and reptile zones of biodiversity.

Compare to the distribution of rainforest and chaparral in coastal North America:

Not coincidentally, California has a similarly high rate of reptile and amphibian endemism and biodiversity.

Even when limited to narrow corridors, temperate rainforest and Mediterranean chaparral still host a surprising amount of unique lifeforms.

Check out California:

Here’s a look at the distribution range of slender salamanders (Batrachoseps) in California. In the Mediterranean-climate zone of California, there are 23 species of slender salamander, of which about 22 are endemic.

Chile and California are essentially mirrored images of each other at similar latitudes; both center on climatically-mild west-coast temperate rainforest and Mediterranean chaparral biomes.

Temperate rainforest biome and Mediterranean-climate chaparral biome are both rare on the planet:

Here’s both the California coast and the Chilean coast recognized as global biodiversity hotspots.

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