Sedona’s red rock is primarily the Schnebly Hill Formation

Bell Rock is associated with active

Turquoise is a copper aluminum phosphate—its blue-green color a product of copper content and the arid conditions that concentrate it near the surface of host rock

carved to be held as much as displayed

Selenite Etched Charging Plate - Zodiac Peach Moonstone Sedona’s red rock is primarilyA flat round of gypsum with the twelve zodiac signs engraved across its surface. Selenite is a variety of gypsum calcium sulfate dihydrate, Mohs 2 that formed in ancient evaporite basins where concentrated mineral water slowly crystallized. Its softness makes it ideal for engraving; its flat cleavage planes make it naturally suited to a plate form. The zodiac wheel engraved here runs all twelve signs in sequence, the incised lines catching the stones