1C-Chert - all the ft.payne chert is an instant concretion from the frankewing, tn impact.
The concretion process is poorly understood. Geologist will see an impact spheroid and say it is a concretion. Yes, just not the way they think. Their model is a slow form deposit or drop out of solution process. That will not make a sphere. Then geologist will claim it was abrasive tumbled. Many rocks are, but if you have ever seen a million pebbles on a shore they are not spheres.
Additionally the random chert specimens that cover the surface for a radius of greater than a hundred miles surrounding the Frankewing, TN Impact Structure are instant concretions of random form. They were not liquid so have no physics process to make a sphere.
Fundamentally non impact reasoning for all the silica forms, chert, chalcedony, jasper, quartz, agates .... do not address the existence of the forming material in the first place. Why do you have this fine grain crystal, iron to start with? Typically a broad assumption will be made as to a volcanic tectonic mechanism and non is citable as present. Building a theory on two unexplained foundations is no theory at all.
The specimen below has a harmonic signature dissolving the iron and manganese in a pattern waveform to concentrate the gathering harmonic resonance around the center of mass. This is Ft. Payne Chert that litters the ground as surface layer for a long distance.
Chert to flint structure can be shown in cleavage planes like the tube fractals along the tope of right side specimen above. The round specimen is of the impact spheroid type. These are differing physics from the same impact using similar material.
Authigenesis of Chert/Iron in the Highland Rim of Middle, TN
Authigenesis is the process whereby a mineral or sedimentary rock deposit is generated where it is found or observed. Such deposits are described as authigenic. Authigenic sedimentary minerals form during sedimentation by precipitation or recrystallization instead of being transported from elsewhere (allogenic) by water or wind. (Wiki) Notice that no mention is made of impact explosions as any change in geologic thought runs at a tectonic speed not an impact speed.
In 1962 Melvin V. Marcher (U.S. Geological Survey, Nashville, TN) and Richard G. Stearns (TN Division of Geology) wrote a pamphlet called Tuscaloosa Formation in TN. It is a reprint from the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America vol. 73, p. 1365-1386, November 1962. This is an analysis of the context of chert/iron and it’s association with the Howell, TN Impact Structure.
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Of special note is the first page of the bulletin “Minor exotic constituents include volcanic(?) glass and heavy minerals.” Also “Mississippian chert gravel in the Tuscaloosa is of local origin, but the Devonian chert was transported from a western source.” In light of the shear size of the Howell Impact it is rather more likely a large amount of pre Cretaceous chert was transported from the east.
Another recent study noted shocked Brassfield chert in the Western Highland Rim (https://tennesseearchaeologycouncil.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/brassfield-chert-of-the-western-valley-tennessee/)
Chert is key for understanding the timing of the Howell, TN Impact. Charles Marsh Woodruff Jr. in his 1968 thesis felt the event to be pre Mississippian. He noted the Lower Silurian Brassfield Chert in the shocked breccia lens at Howell, TN. Samples beyond Howell in the strewn debris field west of Howell indicate a during Fort Payne formation event. Which would be just slightly younger than Woodruff thought it to be.
The late Devonian (it actually runs concurrent with many strata periods) Chattanooga strata is pushed around middle TN indicating it was fluid as well during the impact event. These two strata may be more concurrent that sequential.
While shoreline transport is considered a part of the movement of chert along the Western Highland Rim (WHR) it is easy to see the angularity of specimen surfaces do not support any encompassing dragging surface process. The large impact of a meteor blast does provide a transport mechanism for a large amount of broken and iron laden material along the WHR. The large impact of a high metal content bolide from space is significantly more likely as a source than distant transport from some indeterminable volcanic source to the west. Liquidized dragging transport over such a distance would leave no sharp angular edges such as seen in the WHR.
Pictured is a sample from east Giles County, TN but is quite similar to the WHR examples. Note that more than one iron compound is present. Quartz is also present in the WHR Fort Payne chert beds as mentioned by Marcher and Stearns. No local western source is easily conjectured.
Overall the context of this chert/iron found along a descending spray elevation in the WHR as noted by Ernest F. Burchard in his 1927 study Page 71 which supports a single event blast deposit from the Howell Bolide with the spray landing in a descending altitude with distance from Howell, TN. Impact.
Specimen above was collected in Mississippi. It is a developing Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions. The iron is from the impacting bolide and the banding is developing from the shock wave passing through it along with imparting particles from the explosion.
You typically find crater breccia as an edge effect usually near the crater rim.
In a forensic investigation there can be a definitive piece of evidence. This Fort Payne Chert specimen was still wet and forming or shock plasma/liquid when the iron landed in it making iron veins in it. The fractal like lightning is an energy dispersion form.
As a mechanism the specimens equates to famous art techniques. They are both a Bob Ross wet on wet technique and a Jackson Pollock splatter paining process. Compared to wave form shock examples, most impact shock storm chaos produces chert specimens in "over modulation splatter."
Wrinkled Rockco - Besides Jackson Pollock the American Modern Art master Rothco changed the media with his fading color transitions. I found this shock form this week (July 10, 2020) on my walk around the lake and it reminded me of Rothco. The shock is banding the rock elementally but when you magnify it small specs are going through it and that is what made the creases.
Not a fossil, a coning beam with steps.
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This specimen was dug up while making a new septic system here at Lake Logan at a house across the lake from me. It is a mudstone/chert form. It is such a good example of the mud, iron mixing in the crater in the final resolving of the impact event. Incomplete mixing. A claystone/chert.
Specimen above is from the Manson, Iowa Crater. Silica, iron, and manganese. It is of the cherty type. That is a close in type relic. The round iron inclusions are like shotgun blast and the close pattern indicates a close distance from the impact explosion. It does display a Septarian type separating form in upper right. It also has a Manganese red banding. These are harmonic indicators however this impact was so powerful this specimen could have sustained this metamorphism in flight during the explosion.
Another view of the Manson Iowa Crater Specimen. The left side shows impact directional indicators. The small iron pelleting is the impact side. Also notice the shape of the central iron inclusion, a teardrop shape also coming from left. It has sustained shock type granular particle flow melt constellationing even into fractals. The pink is manganese.
Waveform cleavage plane - Specimen was collected here in the crater at Lake Logan, TN. Flint with mineral inclusions making a sine wave from harmonic resonance shock from the impact shock wave.
Oh, this gets better. The only other chert in my area is the Brassfield Silurian Formation and it is shock made! That means all the way through the earth's mantle 100% of the chert in my area is shock impact made. Specimen below is Brassfield Silurian collected at Lake Logan, TN. It is photographed with 100mm macro lens and shows clear detail down to .01mm. or 1/1000 inch, a human hair will be 1/48th of an inch. The specimen has fiber crystals a shock impact made phenomena.
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Terms used for metamorphic silica narrow this "instant rock" down more. Take note of the term "cryptocrystalline" it even denotes the context of some metamorphic event. As a mechanism shock compression fits. The evidence of bits of iron, copper, fiber crystals and a compressed core caused by shock resonance gathering also fits. Here is the general overlook comparing quartz as two types ... The most important distinction between types of quartz is that of macrocrystalline (individual crystals visible to the unaided eye) and the microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline varieties (aggregates of crystals visible only under high magnification). The cryptocrystalline varieties are either translucent or mostly opaque, while the transparent varieties tend to be macrocrystalline. Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica consisting of fine intergrowths of both quartz, and its monoclinic polymorph moganite.[14] Other opaque gemstone varieties of quartz, or mixed rocks including quartz, often including contrasting bands or patterns of color, are agate, carnelian or sard, onyx, heliotrope, and jasper.
While this size variation is helpful for naming convention it in no way eliminates shock as a macro crystal cause. The shock resonate mechanism is vibrating a crystal structure into place and only material and duration is needed to make large crystals.
Jeremey Rogers of Post Falls, Idaho collected and cut this specimen. It would make a good 70's late mid century painting by the way. Would name it "Dissimilarity." It is an instant made chert nodule at about 2,000 degrees impactite unable to obtain homogenous form.
Lest you doubt the Ft. Payne chert was instant made, ponder this little specimen. I picked it up here in the woods near Lake Logan, TN. It is a splatterform which had a delamination. Under that is a checkerboard shrinkage pattern. That means the splatter and the rock were both in a plasma state when the splatter occurred. There is no popular but wrong geology theory to explain this. It is of impact origin. This was a hot process not a slow concretion. The black is some kind of carbonized fossil!
Blast breccia, see how the breccia stops at the top, it is only a layer. Something like a splatterform. Southern California, collected by Alberto Martinez
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Hawaii Pele's Tears, an instant ejecta nodule.
Ice flow material shapes are similar to all those chert nodules that cover earth, a smooth melt flow surface shape with variations.
Impact chert - The iron inclusion is in a state of cindering. As iron melts at a higher temperature than sand this indicates that the iron was an impact sphere impalement. It is a circle because the impact melted into drops/spheres which are ejecta outward thus surface chert a sand and minerals from the impacting bolide. You can see cone in cone cleavage (shattercone). Cross striation in the iron mixed expansion oval is a record of the shock direction at some point in the explosion progression. If you magnify it you can see granular geometric crystal forms (circles). This is a complex phenomena of the universe where like materials attract which goes all the way down to the sub quantum level. The Minnesota Crater is very large and is the iron deposits called banded iron which is wrongly theorized as a sedimentary process. Banding is a wave effect of these powerful shockwave separating minerals by their specific resonance in a high melt and pressure state.
Minnesota Rocks Minerals And Fossils
Jody Mathers · Aug. 3, 2022
Can anyone tell me what this is? The reddish area and the hole have my curiosity! Found in landscape rock in Burnsville.
Impactite with origin directionality - A flow surface on a meteorite would not line up with the internal flow structure. These nodules are blasted outward in large earth impacts. Sourcing craters is a busy business as there are so many and they overlap. Mars has an estimated 635,000 craters 1Km size or greater with only 53% the size of Earth. So we are looking at a million Earth surface distortions from impact.
Justin Pritchard · Aug. 3, 2022
I initially thought this was a meteorite, just curious what this might be. It's just a broken rock fragmant right? It's non magnetic also.
Chert as a banding harmonic. I once had an arrowhead of red and charcoal banding flint jasper my grandfather found at McKabe golf course in Nashville, TN.
Identification of rocks,minerals,and geological features
Kristi Taylor · August 30 at 10:35 AM ·
This rock has been in my family for as long as I can remember (recently passed down to me- as with the stool it's sitting on )
No idea what it is
Impact oblate sphere with shock wave grid which makes a cleavage surface as the wave will stall at its frequency. It was a type of expansion sphere with high heat banding as it separates the mineral composition. The surface has the signature particle storm granular patterns. The bottom section is making a second order coning harmonic, the triangle wave from the high shockwave energy resonance which it is attenuating.
Paige Creek Mushlove · Sept. 13, 2022
Whaaat have a found on my mushie hike , just on the side of the mountain steep mountain
Fiber crystals, the late arrival of shredded matter formed into thread and attached as hot plasma. You can read about the fiber crystal phenomena on this page: 2H: Shock Broccoli & Fiber Crystals | mysite (hillbillyu.com)
Impact breccia - this was very hot. The broken pieces are welded together with iron or possibly manganese but likely iron because it was so hot it is rejecting the quartz in the binder. This is an impact edge effect where the meteor impact melts its own iron and blast it as a liquid into the rubble. Good specimen. Specimen collected by: نيازك مولاي عمر
Directional sucking in feature is a contraction from being so hot and cooling.
Chert forming impact nodule. Not impact breccia. This is a molten blob ejected from a large earth impact that is cooling while forming. It has a fractal sequence which is an energy signature. Tthis specimen shows a unique time stamp of phenomena
Paul Elliott · · Oct. 16, 2022
Thanks for letting me join.
I found this whilst walking my dog on farm land where I live. At first I thought it was a neolithic hammer tool till someone told me it was a meteorite. It's virtually round, approx 9cms. I would like to know either way!
Christel Brown · Oct. 26, 2022
Found these curious little rocks on Medicine creek at Ft Sill OK.
They don't scratch glass, a steel nail does and leaves a powder behind. 3 are round. One is broken and inside are tiny pinkish and blackish crystaks and dirty Druzy quartz, I think. They feel chalky, but nothing comes off by handling.
Any thoughts? Thank you!
Shock agate transition - You can see the wave resonance banding in some places. The particle configuration when magnified is in the high shock crystal formation habit. The iron is from the impacting bolide/meteor. The most common in southern Middle TN are from the Howell, TN Impact structure which covers the area even down into Alabama. Since it was the last big impact in Middle TN its impactites are the most common on the surface. As an intellectual exercise you can count the number of pointing forms. Resonance imprinting is the shock harmonic wave lengths and shapes. It will focus around the denser parts but project into a point as it has more power than the density holding it. Of special note is the thin plane insertion and the change from the red to black wave imprinting. This crossing wave changed the energy slightly to shift organizing the material from the red to black iron oxide form.
John Stryker · 15, Nov, 2022
I just found this and I am wondering if it is just a pretty rock or something else. This would be beautiful if polished. Approximately 8in across. Any help identifying this is appreciated. Found in middle Tennessee.
Oblate Impact Sphere, progressive with latent surface blast iron from bolide. This will be very hard, it is crypto crystalline and has nano iron in its quartz matrix. The luster effect is from the size of the nano iron particles in it. Combined with the clear quartz it makes a pearl like or opal finish due to light refraction. It is actually a gemstone however a large one. Its crater source is likely shown on this crater map of Oregon. https://www.hillbillyu.com/oregon-usa-craters
Barbara Gribble Dubuque
Dec. 1, 2022
This weighs shy of 30lbs. Found by the Umatilla River in Pendleton. Would like to cut it but I’m not sure if I should. Would appreciate some advice
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Thank you for posting this specimen. I now have to invent a new phenomena term, "micro successive." The layers are nano second arrivals of impact matter in a high shock crypto crystalline form. The holes are impalements of small impact spheres and were iron but the rock is so old they have dissolved away. It is a silica nano iron impact nodule.
Specimen belongs to Del Bazemore ·Dec. 2, 2022
Flint Impact Sphere - Most chert impact nodules are irregular but this one was well formed. It is a very high shock condition called "Cloud Constellationing." The surface has the impact particle storm which it received while in flight. Dec. 19, 2022.
Jackie Davidson Dawydenko
Found in Manitoba Canada put a magnet on it and it contains no medals. Anyone know what this?
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Flint matrix is a crypto crystalline (small crystal) shock effect of fast high energy formation. The dark color is nano iron as a black iron oxide (Fe3O4).
"Atoms will filled electron shells are not magnetic because they have a net dipole moment of zero. Iron and other transition metals have partially-filled electrons shells, so some of these elements and their compounds are magnetic. In atoms of magnetic elements nearly all of the dipoles align below a special temperature called the Curie point."
Not All Iron Is Magnetic (Magnetic Elements) - ThoughtCo
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Crater of origin? Small craters like the Barringer Crater in Arizona do not have the energy to make impact spheres. Very large earth impacts tend to make larger impact spheres. However, a very large impact can also make small spheres.
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Crater excavation and ablation - The geologic column is an instant event with large earth impacts as the event overturns the crustal surface. A crater wall is a nominal event relative to the total energy. Blasting down to the Precambrian is ablation with this surface remaining as exposure. Normal crater structure would have this impact coming from the lest, west however the arc is contrary. An impact this large could roll the strata. While Kimberlite is thought to be of tectonic volcanic type orogeny, since impact is so poorly understood this is very unlikely. The diamonds found in Kimberlite are organic material made to diamonds by the impacts high energy pressure. This is the association found in South Africa with the Vredefort Crater. Organic material was present at the time of impact which precludes the Precambrian. The Precambrian is just a blast exposure. Dec. 19, 2022.
Ft. Payne Chert (Mississippian/Carboniferous period) is an impact made nodule from a number of different impacts but largely the Howell Impact Structure which is really centered at Frankewing, TN and can be seen from satellite images. The specimens presented are an example of resonate concentration around the center of mass. Impact nodules are cooked like a microwave oven does from the inside out as resonance will concentrate around the center of mass. This high shock resonant energy is combined with the high energy pulverization (crypto crystalline) of impact and reforms the impact material into outward bound impact concretion nodules from the high pressure of impact which can be greater than 100 Giga Pascals (GPa). Attached is a map showing what is generally considered the Ft. Payne chert distribution in TN. "Map showing known locations of Fort Payne mud mounds in Tennessee. Compiled by Larry Knox and Frank Stupor Jr., at the Department of Earth Sciences, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN. Redrafted by Stephen Greb. Fort Payne Formation surface distribution from U.S. Geological Survey data."
Justin Phillips · Feb, 7, 2023 ·
Just wondering exactly what kind of flint or chert this is it's from Overton county Tennessee any info is appreciated thanks in advance
Impact sphere and catcher. This is from an earth impact which turns material in the kinetic explosion to drops. As the sphere and catcher are different it impaled the chert probably in flight. Jan. 8, 2024.
Tom Gullett · ·
I found this in 1965 in a coal strip mine in Kentucky. I have always called it my petrified wall nut it seems to have a partial hull around the “nut” It is about the same size as a walnut. Would appreciate some intelligent answers. Thanks
Chert Impact Sphere in catcher wall lower level of Mammoth Cave. (jsjgeology.net)
So let's start with the particulars. The black dots are from the impacting bolide in a sheet wave pattern. It has a sub nodule indicating the sphere was formed in close to the impact.
Caves - Caves are part of the impact rubble voids. These voids provide channels for water to connect via erosion. That is why the connecting tunnels seem to be so awkward in making connections to these room voids. The water pressure will just find the next void even if it is a back flow.
Mammoth Cave was made by the Mammoth Impact shown below. March 24, 2024.
Note the SW crater may be part of Big MO or another crater and overlap.
So let's list the considerations of the systemic failure of geology.
1. Plate tectonics is a failed shadow theory like Plato's cave (pun) whereby it offers a mechanism that is not plausible. Originally called Raft Tectonics as the plates are considered to float you can see that ramming rafts will not cause these excavations or even circles.
2. Geology uses a rote learning flash card system to identify rather than a forensic physics approach. Imagine if a detective arrived on a crime scene and started pulling out flash cards to identify what happened. Well that is geology.
3. Lost in technology. Geology has more terms in your scientific dictionary than most any other discipline. First the physical origin of these rocks and strata is wrongly based on a shadow theory and then a label is produced of these variations of mineral blast from the many Earth accretions. Like a crime scene the important consideration is the event not the blood type of the victim.
4. Confused time. While an impact can blast all the way through the crust, these exposures are not dating the event. Nor is erosion the cause of the exposure. Erosion by the way is the previous theory that Raft/Plate Tectonics replaced. As a forensic analysis you can assume these exposures to be the last big geological event and show previous events by unveiling them.
5. Random quest for mineral resources. Understanding that a particular impact had any set of desirable minerals allows for a reasoned approach to mining.
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Now here is a different kind of chert impalement. This was very very hot and has caused a difference in the size of the impact catcher voids. The holes without chert are plasma hole burns. Hayes County, TX. forums.arrowheads.com March 24, 2024.
Chert impact spheres in catcher. This high density means the specimen was inside the crater. You can also tell the direction coming from right to left. March 24, 2024.
Jay Meadows · 22h ·
Found today in West Virginia, any idea what this is? I don't know.
Uncommon. Shows formation flow on surface. The switch from banding to perpendicular strings is the ending energy. Impactite. The core is crypto crystalline high shock made. May 11, 2024.
DebbieJacks Haynes Aubrey Haynes · ·
Found this interesting rock in my yard. ?
High heat mosaic, is this how pebbles form? Chert. May 17, 2024.
Christie Lynn
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Would love some help identifying this. Dug it out of a creek bed wall on our property in north central Illinois. Very heavy, possibly metal but not magnetic. At first I thought it was an animal but after being cleaned up definitely has metal in it.
Impactite, chert with high iron content, detail showing melting and pelting. Oct. 6, 2024.
Bill Mace specimen of Mesa, AZ.
Impactite with fractal flow. This rock was made very fast in an impact explosion. The band when magnified shows the direction of flow with bifurcation away from direction of energy. Magnification attached. Oct. 14, 2024.
Patsy Watson Etheridge​
Could this be a fossil in this rock? Any ideas on the Rock? Found West Alabama
Fractal confusion. Energy made lightning like paths throughout the specimen. It also has isolated another mineral like calcite (white). Charged effects like this are from an earth impact which generates a high charge from the swirling fine particles as well as ionization. Oct 14, 2024.
Patsy Watson Etheridge
Any idea what this Rock is. Never seen anything like it in this area. West Alabama near Sispey River.
