[meteorite-list] Lightening glass was Question for Ted ?

From: MEM <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:18:39 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <605424.61289.qm_at_web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Yes Frank this was the one. I was lucky to be able to get some of these
specimens and hope to be able to work them into a fulgurite display some time.
There are groups for lightening survivors but not any "Lightening Festivals" or
"Lightening Celebrations" that I am aware of that are begging for an exhibit.

Thanks for looking this site up and posting it.

Elton



----- Original Message ----
> From: Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net>
> To: MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: meteoritelist <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 3:02:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lightening glass was Question for Ted ?
>
> Hi Elton,
>
> I think you were probably referring to this.
>
> http://www.tektitesource.com/Exogenic%20Fulgurites.htm
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> To: Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com>; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 9:02:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lightening glass was Question for Ted ?
>
> Yes , it could be a fulgurite but it remains difficult to reconstruct the
> physics of what is described.. Being as a 4 time lightening survivor myself,

> which may account for some of my quirkiness, I see glass in my dreams.
>
>
> Someone on this list a few years ago offred specimens of glass from a
>lightening
>
>
> strike which shot glass out of the hole left in a granite slab. The glass
> draped over a bush and left long, stringy, taffy-like threads of black glass.
>
> It is awesome material, especially knowing how it came to be. Not your
>classic
>
> fulgurite.
>
> Also recently there was a NWA recovered which had small fragments apparently
> embedded in a black glass on one side suggesting that a swarm of fragments
> drafting the larger mass inside its slipstream. The swarm caught up to it and

> adhered to the fused pool of material on the downwind side of the stone. What
>
> has become of that recovery? Anyone formally researching it?
>
> Elton
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Michael Fowler <mqfowler at mac.com>
> > Lightning strikes, which are especially common on mountain peaks, or other
> >tree
> >
> >less high standing rock outcrops.
> >
> > Mike Fowler
> > Chicago
> > ebay-starsandrocks
>
> > > Can a volcano or earth quake squeeze surface rock so hard it causes it to
>
> >bleed glass? And then throw it in the air with enough force to cause the
>glass
>
>
> >to form a dendritic pattern? On one side of the rock? The rock is white and

> >looks like anorthosite. The surface of the rock is peach colored and ripled

> >like regmalypts. The glass is black and shiny with some splatering and
> >flattened and in some places encrusted with dirt when it landed while still

> >melted. The glass looks like tar that was dropped onto the ground. I at
>first
>
> >thought it was road tar mixed with rocks and dirt. But it doesntdisolve in
> >gasoline or melt under a torch. It looks kind of like you took a white
>sponge
>
> >and squeezed it to ooze out black shiny paint. The side that looks like
> >regmalypts also has a few spots that look like zap pits. Any Idea what would
>
> >make glass dendrites? Have a great day Steve
> >
> >
> >
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