[meteorite-list] Lightning-induced Shock Lamellae in Quartz

[Anne Black]

Interesting!

So, shocked quartz could be the result of lightning and not an impact.!
That is going to confuse a lot of people and complicate a lot of studies.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


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From: Paul H. via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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Lightning Can Warp Rocks at Their Core
by Elizabeth Goldbaum, August 10,
2015
http://www.livescience.com/51789-lightning-warps-rocks-atoms.html
http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/077/674/original/fulgurite.jpg?1438973494

Lightning
Reshapes Rocks at the Atomic Level, Penn 
Study Finds by Katherine Unger
Baillie, August 5,
2015
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/lightning-reshapes-rocks-atomic-level-penn-study-finds

“but
had transferred enough pressure to deform a thin 
layer of quartz crystals
beneath the surface, resulting 
in distinct atomic-level structures called shock
lamellae.”

The paper is:

Gieré, R., W. Wimmenauer, H. Müller-Sigmund, 
R.
Wirth, G. R. Lumpkin, and K. L. Smith, 2015,
Lightning-induced shock lamellae in
quartz.
American Mineraologist. vol. 100, no. 7, pp.
1645-1648.
http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/content/100/7/1645
http://goldschmidt.info/2015/uploads/abstracts/finalPDFs/1039.pdf

Yours,

Paul
H.
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