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Sedimentary Journey, Colorado Alabaster, 14"X9"X5"
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Beaked Bird Head, Colorado Alabaster, 7"X10"X4"
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A Spire, Black Chlorite, 17"X8"X7"
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Amphora with Inscription, Indiana Limestone
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Green Boy, Italian Aosta Verde Issorie Marble
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          Sphinx, Heather Green Alabaster, 12"X6"X5"
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Mapping Stone, Picasso Marble
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Separated After Birth, Silver Could Alabaster

 

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Wedded Two, Utah Red Sandstone
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Ball Peen Sisters, Silver Cloud Alabaster

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                 Strata Various, Raspberry Alabaster
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            Sentry, Arabescato Marble
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                 Dyad, Heather Green Alabaster, 14"X8"X6"
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                 Reimagined, Blue Ice Alabaster, 13" x 12" x 8"
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                      Outside In, Colorado Alabaster
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Bird Sentry, Ming Marble, 27" x 5" x 4"
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                Rhombus Evolving with Tail, Zebra Marble, 15" x 7" x 3"
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Light Stone, Italian Alabaster
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Field Stone, Indiana Limestone
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Whale Stone, Brazilian Soapstone
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                Bird Woman, Orange Alabaster, 11"X4"X6"
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                Whale Walk, Brazilian Soapstone
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Mesa Stone, Raspberry Alabaster
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Leaning Tower of Goose Neck, Silver Cloud Alabaster, 30 x 7 x 3
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N - Becoming Bird, California Marble

Soapstone

Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of the mineral talc and is thus rich in magnesium. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occurs in the areas where tectonic plates are subducted, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx of fluids, but without melting.  It has been a medium for carving for thousands of years.  Steatite is relatively soft (because of the high talc content), and may feel soapy when touched, hence the name.

Travertine

Travertine is a banded, compact variety of limestone formed along streams, particularly where there are waterfalls, and around hot or cold springs. Calcium carbonate is deposited where evaporation of the water leaves a solution supersaturated with the chemical constituents of calcite.

Tufa

Tufa, a porous or cellular variety of travertine, is found near waterfalls. Coquina is a poorly consolidated limestone composed of pieces of coral or shells.
Jeff Arnett has a BA in Art from UC Santa Cruz in 1972, a BA in Creative Writing in 1981 from UCSC, and an MA in Creative Writing form the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1985.  He taught writing at UCSC for 26 years.