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

[MEM]

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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