Petra – Crown Jewels of
the Atlantic Shore

# Limited editions

Along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia live some of the world’s great petrological stores of Cambrian-Ordovician rock, mammoth remnants of the kilometer-thick ice fields hurled by the Appalachian Glacier Complex as it withdrew more than 12,000 years ago. Dating to the Devonian, a geological period of the Paleozoic era spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian period, they formed well before the dinosaur walked the Earth.

Crushed by tectonic plates and compressed into metamorphic form, at passing glance, not unlike faces in a crowd, they may seem similar, but at closer view reveal their sculpted individuality in crystal amalgams — some jagged and broken, others rounded and smooth dressed in lichen.