Petoskey Stone Pendant Necklace

  Hand polished Petoskey stone styled with silver filled wire.  The stone is natural shape, gorgeous on front and back.  This pendant comes with an 18” wax cord necklace, expandable to 20”.   Petoskey stone is a rock, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized coral. These stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off their rough edges and depositing them in the northwestern (and some in the northeastern) portion of Michigan’s lower peninsula. It is the official state stone of Michigan.  Petoskey stones can be found on various beaches and inland locations in Michigan, with many of the most popular Petoskey stone beaches stretching from Traverse City to Petoskey, along Lake Michigan. They are fragments of a coral reef that was originally deposited during the Devonian period. When dry, the stone resembles ordinary limestone but when wet or polished, the distinctive mottled pattern of the six-sided coral emerg