Fordite: Detroit's Agate

During the manufacturing process, assembly line workers in the budding auto industry would spray the cars in excess, as a means of working as quickly as possible to keep up with the growing demand. Each car would drip it’s own color of enamel paint on the moving assembly line, and the layers of drip would be rolled into the drying oven with the vehicles themselves. Over a brief period of time, the various colors formed the layers you see in these specimens.

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