Rattlesnake Horns
Stone Sculpture made from naturally sourced welded volcanic ash from the Rattlesnake ignimbrite, collected near Burns, Oregon.
Length 18", height 2.5 "
Available for Sale $300
The Rattlesnake Tuff is the youngest of three widespread tuff layers resulting from huge caldera eruptions that occurred near Burns, Oregon between 10 and 7 million years ago. Each covered an area of thousands of square miles with thick layers of hot ash, in many places thick enough that the ash welded into a solid mass from the residual heat and pressure. Much of the Rattlesnake tuff is soft and porous, this is a piece that is unusually hard and dense, with large flattened pieces of pumice (called fiamme) visible in the pink ash matrix.
Length 18", height 2.5 "
Available for Sale $300
The Rattlesnake Tuff is the youngest of three widespread tuff layers resulting from huge caldera eruptions that occurred near Burns, Oregon between 10 and 7 million years ago. Each covered an area of thousands of square miles with thick layers of hot ash, in many places thick enough that the ash welded into a solid mass from the residual heat and pressure. Much of the Rattlesnake tuff is soft and porous, this is a piece that is unusually hard and dense, with large flattened pieces of pumice (called fiamme) visible in the pink ash matrix.
