Impact Melt Glass | 395 Grams | Ries Crater Impactite | Stuttgart Germany SO24 Micraster in some lenses perfect

in some lenses perfect

The staurolite is twinned

Tektites exhibit a number of meteoritic features

and 96 km (60 mi) north of the community of Resolute

The back of the specimen is mostly small smoky quartz crystals

Impact Melt Glass | 395 Grams | Ries Crater Impactite | Stuttgart Germany SO24 Micraster in some lenses perfectThis is an outstanding specimen Impact Melt Glass or bomb coming from the Ries crater near Stuttgart Germany. Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts. Impactite is a slag like glassy object found on the surface of the earth, formed from rock melted by the impact of a meteorite. The term encompasses shock metamorphosed target rocks, melts or suevites and mixtures of the two, as well as sedimentary rocks with