GO TO NEW STONE-AGE JEWELRY  GO TO STORE  GO TO HOME PAGE 

What is Missouri Dreamstone?   

“ALTERED” DENSE-ALGAL-LAMINATE-DOLOMITE

         Fossil Algae

 MISSOURI DREAMSTONE is found only one place among the Precambrian knobs of the St. Francis mountain uplift in the Eastern Ozarks of Missouri.

   All lapidary work done by Mark and Rita Hadley.   

DREAMSTONE is a localized metamorphism of the Davis dolomites in the upper Cambrian series.

      DREAMSTONE is 5 on Moh's hardness scale, significantly harder than unaltered dolomite. The area of metamorphism is a couple acres in size. It may be from local hydrothermal activity millions of years ago. Away from the site, the bedrock is grey dolostone with normal 3.5 hardness.

  Is a drawing of the underground geology that possibly exists at the site. Click on the Cross Section Icon.

"This stone was in my backyard. I walked over it for 31 years. I had no idea it was there until I saw myself digging rocks there in a dream. I discovered it the next morning, in January 1998."    Mark Hadley

Special thanks to the Missouri Geological Survey for their help identifying this new rock.

GO TO NEW STONE-AGE JEWELRY  GO TO STORE  GO TO HOME PAGE