Fulgurite

FUL14

Saharan Lightening Fossil

The large section of  Saharan fulgurites is a type 1, formed by sand into a hollow glass tube with many appendages. It is shaped by lightening bolt high temperature and rapid cooling.

67 x 33 x 23 mm

14 g fragment

PPG: $10.00

$140.00

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Fulgurites

Location:
  • Mauritania
    • Atar
Found: 1997
Group:
  • Impactite
Type:
  • Non-impact Glass
Total known weight: Unknown

Fulgurites are not related to meteorite impact. They are useful for comparison with the impact glass. According to Wikipedia Fulgurites (from Latin fulgur 'lightning', and -ite), commonly called "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into ground.