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A closeup of interconnected layered coral tubes, pale creamy white, with edges covered in small translucent nacreous crystals, softly lit.
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Coral Tubes With Layered Nacreous Crystals

These structures are calcified remains of ancient coral polyps, with the concentric layered walls of each tube formed from successive mineral deposits over time. The nacreous crystal growths that cover the outer junctions between tubes are secondary mineral accretions deposited as the coral skeleton became fossilized.

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