Petrified Lightning - 1.549" Saharan Fulgurite earlyinterest creating a lattice formation

creating a lattice formation

the book on the bottom is John McPhee's legendary Annals of the Former World

revealing the many forms this material is capable of taking

The jar is enclosed inside a classic

92" fossil plant that was recovered from Mazon Creek in Illinois

Petrified Lightning - 1.549" Saharan Fulgurite earlyinterest creating a lattice formationAbove: Front of the Specimen Card. When lightning strikes dry sand, the intense heat melts and fuses the silica creating tubes of rough glass called fulgurites. The process happens quickly, often trapping molecules from the surrounding atmosphere inside the walls of the impact tube. These natural time capsules allow scientists to study the composition of ancient climates. This specimen is a 1. 549" fulgurite collected in the Sahara Desert. Originally