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2H - Shock Broccoli & Fiber Crystals - The Chattanooga Shale was just an organic marsh. It is not a time but an environment and is associated with many other geology periods (see chart at right). You can find it compressed into oil shale, which is likely a shock effect but when a more soupy state and shocked you get shock broccoli because of all the gassing. It makes voids underneath it which only confirms this idea. Also come in green from the copper in the meteor blast.  You can see shock broccoli on Mars: watch this video. NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Finds A Changing Landscape - YouTube

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Frankewing, TN Impact >>>

Specimen below has voids a little bit green. Notice the specimen on the ground does not have voids just a iron trace chert type core. Is a lot of sand around at the Chattanooga shale bog too. Shown below is ancient slag from Denmark. The shock broccoli impactite form is the same cooling surface. Provenance is important. 

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Slag
Shock Broccoli 
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Rainbow colors but same surface. A heat blossom botryoidal effect. 

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This may be a form of Bayldonite. You can see similarity with the Wikipic. As a shock melt form it can exist blob like without the Arsenic base of Bayldonite although it does have those fiber crystals. 
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This specimen of limestone below is from Lake Logan, TN also. It is a piece off a limestone strata exposed along a ditch that the county mowing tractor blade hit and it made a conical chip. This is not typical of limestone to chip that way. It is a property of crypto crystalline materials like flint. The "shock brocolli" surface is smaller than the above copper based specimens. It does have trace minerals blown through it in the shock chaos storm. Magnified you can also see the particle storm presence in the .0? mm range.  Shock brocolli is a surface cooling effect. 
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As you magnify down even more you can see the limestone shock broccoli is more of a cornered crystal effect whereas the  copper type looks more round Botryoidal. Shock broccoli is the impact version of  pahoehoe lava (pah hoy hoy) lava (upper part of photo), which is smooth & ropey lava And then there is the string crystals or fiber metal down at .00? millimeter in red and white. Scientific name: Peli Pubici Minerali. 
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Red Fiber >>>>>
Capelli Rossi
Is this the same effect I call "Constealtioning?" No I don't think it is.  https://www.hillbillyu.com/constellationing
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White Fiber/Crystal >>
capelli bianchi della fica
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Another crossing fiber crystal. This time in a branching fractal. The fiber is very small.  .005 mm. 
Not fiber crystal, iron coalescing into a crack? >>>
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Blue fiber crystal and the strange comb structure. 
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The above is a close up of this wind prints specimen made by the shock chaos storm, like mega clast only smaller. Wind prints are usually considered to only be from meteorites entering earth's atmosphere. But the phenomena is general to any surface passing flow. 
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Specimen from New Zealand, constellationing and crossing fractal fiber crystals. 
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Specimen from Lake Logan, TN is Botryoidal milky quartz with fiber crystal. Scale is mm the fiber and the iron splatter are in the .0? mm range. It appears the iron splatter arrived on top of the fiber crystal. 
So here it is again. I was actually working a small area of "shock fossil coral" and find red fiber crystals. They are internal as this is a broken internal section. This is a very high shock specimen and is being transformed from a coral fossil into a geode. 
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Fiber crystals are like the ever present lint that gets on your just cleaned clothes. >>>
A static charge attraction? 
I call this system "emprovenance. " Case building by relational sequence. This specimen found withing a few feet of the above specimen is coral less transformed. It has a right section like the white milky quartz specimen above  
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And here is the emprovenance for the red fiber geode specimen. Coral but "deep fried." I call these "crispy's." 
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Specimen below is a cinder found at Lake Logan, TN. Scale is 1/1000 inch. It has iron fiber crystals, Septarian borders, and particle Turning Pattern Constellationing. A shock chaos storm even invades the highest heat zone as a subsequent intrusion or did it happen in the cinder burn phase? 
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Micro Septarian Shapes and fractals  >>>
Why did it make circles? >>>
must be a heat effect or impalements.
Although the article below is insightful, the fact that the fiber crystals form fractals is a display of energy content usually in dissipation. And above we have parts and pieces of iron like a splatter form. The dark shapes are cinder voids. 

S S Verma

M.Sc. (Physics, 1982) from HPU, Shimla, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi, 1989), Postdoctoral fellow (1991-93, Japan), Working as Professor (Physics) at SLIET, Longowal (Punjab), India since 2011.

Different types of non-linear phenomena on the basis of wave and particle interactions in a medium of propagation due to energy transfer between wave to wave, wave to particle or particle to wave are well known.  Physics is a science of paradoxes and recent discovery of “Ballistic resonance” is a new physical paradox discovered by Russian Scientists. A physical paradox is an apparent contradiction in physical descriptions of the universe. While many physical paradoxes have accepted resolutions, others defy resolution and may indicate flaws in theory. In physics as in all of science, contradictions and paradoxes are generally assumed to be artifacts of error and incompleteness because reality is assumed to be completely consistent, although this is itself a philosophical assumption. When, as in fields such as quantum physics and relativity theory, existing assumptions about reality have been shown to break down, this has usually been dealt with by changing our understanding of reality to a new one which remains self-consistent in the presence of the new evidence.

 

Scientists considered the simplest model of oscillations of a chain of particles connected by springs. They assumed that the mechanical movement would gradually fade away, turning into chaotic thermal oscillations. Still, the result was unexpected: the oscillations in the chain first almost decayed, but then revived and reached nearly the initial level. The system came to its initial state, and the cycle repeated itself. The causes of mechanical oscillations from thermal vibrations in the considered system have been the subject of scientific research and disputes for decades. The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem bears the name of the three scientists who were looking for a theoretical physics problem suitable for an investigation with one of the very first computers and decided to study the thermalization process of a solid. The FPU problem marked the beginning of nonlinear physics and is of central importance in the theories of solitons and chaos. The original idea, proposed by Enrico Fermi, was to simulate the one-dimensional analogue of atoms in a crystal: a long chain of particles linked by springs that obey Hooke’s law (a linear interaction), but with a weak nonlinear correction (quadratic for the FPU-α model or cubic for the FPU-β model). A purely linear law for the springs guarantees that energy given to a single ‘normal’ mode always remains in that mode.

 

Then, Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, Stanislaw Ulam, and Mary Tsingou (FPUT) conducted computer simulations of a vibrating string that included a non-linear term (quadratic in one test, cubic in another, and a piecewise linear approximation to a cubic in a third). They found that the behavior of the system was quite different from what intuition would have led them to expect. Fermi thought that after many iterations, the system would exhibit thermalization, an ergodic behavior (ergodicity is a property of a discrete or continuous dynamical system which expresses a form of irreducibility of the system, from a measure-theoretic viewpoint)  in which the influence of the initial modes of vibration fade and the system becomes more or less random with all modes excited more or less equally. Instead, the system exhibited a very complicated quasi-periodic behavior.  The FPUT experiment was important both in showing the complexity of nonlinear system behavior and the value of computer simulation in analyzing systems.

 

Researchers from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University discovered and theoretically explained a new physical effect that amplitude of mechanical vibrations can grow without external influence. Additionally, the scientific group also offered their explanation on how to eliminate the FPUT paradox. The scientists explained it using a simple example to rock the swing we have to keep pushing it and generally believed that it is impossible to achieve oscillatory resonance without constant external influence. However, the scientific group discovered a new physical phenomenon of “ballistic resonance,” where mechanical oscillations can be excited only due to internal thermal resources of the system. Over the past few years, scientists have been looking into the mechanisms of heat propagation at the micro and nano levels. The experimental work of researchers from all around the world demonstrated, that the heat spreads at abnormally high speeds at nano and micro levels in ultrapure crystalline materials. This phenomenon was called ballistic heat conductivity. The scientific group derived the equations describing this phenomenon and made significant progress in the overall understanding of thermal processes at the micro-level. In the study researchers considered the system behavior at the initial periodic distribution of temperature in the crystal material.  The discovered phenomenon describes that the process of heat equilibration leads to mechanical vibrations with an amplitude that grows with time. The effect is called ballistic resonance.

 

The amplitude of mechanical vibrations caused by ballistic resonance doesn’t increase infinitely, but reaches its maximum, after that it starts gradually decreasing to zero. Eventually, the mechanical oscillations fade completely, and the temperature equilibrates in the whole crystal. Usually, it is not taken into account that in the real materials, there is a thermal motion, along with the mechanical one, and the energy of thermal motion is several orders of magnitude higher. Scientists recreated these conditions in a computer experiment and showed that it is the thermal motion that damps the mechanical wave and prevents the revival of oscillations. Scientists found out that at micro and nano levels, the heat doesn’t spread in the way it is expected to do, e.g., the heat can flow from cold to hot. This behavior of nano-systems leads to new physical effects, such as ballistic resonance. In the future, the researhers plan to analyze how this can be used in such promising materials as, for example, graphene. The theoretical advance proposed by scientists demonstrates a new approach to how we understand the heat and temperature which may be fundamental in the development of nanoelectronic devices in the future. 

While this article could explain the forming of particles into fibers which does seem to be the case in some as they are only partially formed and particles are shown to be in alignment some presentations are fully formed. These fully formed fiber crystals do not present as any associated particles in the rock. These may be shredded fragments not as a concretion which they may be attached to but formed as just thin lines in the explosion plasma as are other geometric forms like spheres. A math of geometry, points, lines, spheres. 

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This rock was in my neighbors yard and I photographed it on my walk around the lake this morning (31 July 2020). It is a tri layer stone but when I magnified the view I could see it was entirely constructed with Turing Pattern Constellationing. Besides that it has a lateral flow and if full of tubular crystals but they are different than the ones I see as fiber crystals. These look like Turing Pattern Constellationing made as they are the same in size and material. Or constructed of the same material with an energy that makes the fiber crystal.
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This is my favorite Trinitite specimen. Ira and Larry Goldburg Auctioneers. It has fiber crystals. Or is it some kind of linear crystal formed like Constellationing? 

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Trinitite From First Atomic Bomb Blast. Trinitite is a glassy light green fused silica sand that was created by the first atomic bomb blast near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The glass is mostly composed of arkosic sand primarily consisting of silica quartz grains and feldspar. The intense heat of the resulting fireball depressed a 300 yard in diameter crater transforming the desert sand beneath the crater into one of the rarest minerals on earth, Trinitite. Contained within the Trinitite are melted bits of the first atomic bomb itself as well as the supporting structure. This large specimen is 33X28X5 mm and weighs 4.6 grams which is considerably larger than most pieces available. There is a green glossy color on top of the specimen and a fused gray stone bottom. All available specimens of Trinitite were collected in the late 1940's and early 1950's. In 1953 the entire site was bulldozed and buried by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. This rare specimen is contained in a 6X5 inch Riker mount with a picture of the actual 1945 atomic explosion. Trinitite is still mildly radioactive but is considered to be safe to handle but should not be swallowed.
Estimated Value $400 - 550.

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Shown above is a fiber crystal from the Thrace Impact Crater west of Istanbul, Turkey. Notice how it is branching off another structure. 
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I put shock broccoli and fiber crystals on the same page on my web site because I found it together at first. Then found separate. Am studying my specimen of Cucumber Hollite and found them together again. Interesting. This one had fiber crystals in 3 dimensions because Cucumber Hollite breaks apart and you get to see fresh surfaces.
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The Lace Splatterform - Is this a mass of fiber crystals arriving as a grouping? 

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Quenching turbulence - Never mind the dead red moss this is Shock Broccoli and a hot shocked specimen wrapping around an inclusion in which the back rushing sea has quenched. This formed crystals and contracted in a curling pattern. 

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Round Impactite with Iron and Cobalt Linear Constellationing Crystals, not Fiber Crystals. From the Thrace Crater west of Istanbul, Turkey. Is very rare. The only one I have ever seen. You can see a very fine particle surface of Turing Patterns from the shock particle storm.  Chain circles, very rare Constellationing form. 

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Impact Breccia from Slate Rock Mill Road in Lincoln County, TN - This rock was broke open to show this internal section. It is very heavy and has a fiber crystal. The green crystals around it are shock olivine, a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg2+, Fe2+)2SiO
4. Thus, it is a type of nesosilicate or orthosilicate. Olivine has the property of removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. 
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Tube Agate - This is a shock made striated form. It has both the tube agate and the  fiber crystal being formed out of the shocked particle constellationing. 

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Medfordite - see crater map to right

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<<< Medford

Two craters so close are suspect binary impacts. A split on entry. Let's name them the SW Oregon Crater Twins. That way we can keep California out of the credits, see what I mean?

Impactite Non Resonant - Shock is a wave therefore you see a lot of resonant forms like fractal dendrites a surface harmonic. The blue/green cobalt is an arriving fiber crystal in the impact explosion progression. The matrix is milky quartz. It does have an arriving iron pellet. The bright red is manganese.

While the specimen above this one appears to be making fiber crystals from the shock particles i. e. Linear Constellationing, the gathering particles in this one may only be the chemical rejection patterns know as Turing Patterns. 

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Fiber Crystal Creature - 100mm macro lens about .01 mm. Impactite from Lake Logan, TN. 

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SHOCK BLOB - This specimen forced me to come up with another technicle term like shock blob. Well anyway it has fiber crystals on the surface and a fiber crystal creature. 

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Specimen was found at Colorado River in Needles CA. By Rebecca Voorhees. 

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On Page 112 of this book you can see a fiber crystal within the structure. 

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<<< Fiber Crystal (red)

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Campo del Clelo Meteorite

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Fiber Crystals >>>>>>
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SE of Waynesboro, TN specimen. Radial Fractal Fiber Crystal with circle in center. Rare. 25 nano meters 1/1000 inch figure arms. 

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The shape of the gamma-ray cluster is similar to shock broccoli. 

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Impactite, quartz and iron. The little dots are bits blasted outward from a large earth impact. The matrix is the sand that was melted. The linear bits are shredded iron from the proto planet bolide that hit earth. Found TN river on Georgia side near Chattanooga.

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Hawaii Volcano Pele Hair Glass - this phenomena is the same as impact fiber crystals. Impact however has a  much broader range of elemental materials and is much larger in magnitude. 

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Besides the crazy raised strange septarian surface forms this has fiber crystals all over it. The rock matrix is a form of Verdite. Specimen collected by: Jessica Hahn. 

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Iron shock broccoli on large impact mega clast SW Jackson County, TN. This is a large piece of the Silurian Brassfield strata blasted 

fifty plus miles along with pushing the lower Highland Rim south into Alabama. This stand up iron effect is part of the fall from the vaporized core of the impacting bolide/proto planet about six miles in diameter. 

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Emilie Winter-Baker  · 

Hello! My Grandad was a miner 50/60 years ago and found this in a mine in Wales (UK) Unsure of exact location as he's now in his 80s. It was found over 1/2 a mile down. Over the years him and my dad have tried cutting, drilling, hammering but it can't be broken or marked in any way. It looks as feels like some form of metal and weighs a tone for it's size. It has "bubble" type holes but also like metal splinter/fiber type structure inside. Any ideas?

We thought it may be a form of slag but have had people look at it over the years and they have said its not slag but no one seems to be able to say what it is. My grandad is reluctant to let me take it to any university or anything as he's convinced it's a metal rock from space and doesn't want anyone taking it away from him.

"needle fiber crystals"  Linear Constellationing.

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Linear mosaic impactite from Chesapeake Bay Impact. Why linear? Why tubular? First linear implies a consistency that would cause cooling breaks in a uniform heat relief way. Also the tube form is conducive to stretch breaking. Alas the striation cracks are not exactly uniform which is normal. The tubes are coning wave structures. Impact makes shockwaves and these are many frequencies including the triangle sine wave form. Magnified in the upper section you can see a fiber crystal. These are shredded matter. Landing on specimens in a hot plasma state and bonding. Uncommon specimen collected by: 

Jennifer Berger  · 

Rock with hand cut markings. On Cape Cod. 

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This is a very nice find. It is an impact form from the Wells Creek Crater. It is a simi plastic spalling splashform impact sphere type. It is iron and silica. The iron is from the impacting bolide but often the silica is from sand as Middle, TN was likely a shallow ocean at the time. It has a rare feature called a fiber crystal red (Capelli Rossi). Fiber crystals are shredded mater that land on still hot plasma mater and fuse on the surface.

strange find I.D., geology, archaeology, paleontology, Native Artifacts

Sean Brooks  · 9h  · 

Any idea as to what this thing could be. It's heavier than it looks

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Erupting fiber crystal in gas with fractal edge. 

A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun Sept. 14, 2022
Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)

Explanation: Earlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament's full extent was estimated to be over half of the Sun's radius -- more than 350,000 kilometers long. A filament is composed of hot gas held aloft by the Sun's magnetic field, so that viewed from the side it would appear as a raised prominence. A different, smaller prominence is simultaneously visible at the Sun's edge. The featured image is in false-color and color-inverted to highlight not only the filament but the Sun's carpet chromosphere. The bright dot on the upper right is actually a dark sunspot about the size of the Earth. Solar filaments typically last from hours to days, eventually collapsing to return hot plasma back to the Sun. Sometimes, though, they explode and expel particles into the Solar System, some of which trigger auroras on Earth. The pictured filament appeared in early September and continued to hold steady for about a week.

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This is a type of conductive Fiber Crystal shredded mater vector physics. See how it is melting away along the edge like putty.  Also has fractal edge as it was giving up energy. This had a high electrical charge from the impact chaos storm similar to volcano ash lightning. The density of these overlapping shredded matter lines is a function of closeness to the impact explosion, and the fiber crystals traveling as a group but they will tend to separate unless connected.  It is likely these traveled welded together. 

 Mega Clast at Bankhead Forest, Alabama. Photo by: Christy Lyle. 

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Howell, TN Meteor Sept 26, 2022

Upper left is coning pattern. The harmonic is shifting to the triangle wave form. Lower right is a fiber crystal, shredded matter which arrives late in an impact and welds to surface. Similar to Pele Hair from Hawaii volcano. Only mm I have ever seen with fiber crystal.

Micrometeorites

Scötte Petersön  

Lee Isham

Impact clast type 2 high heat slow cool. The blue is likely cobalt. A type 2 impactite is part surface part meteor mix. This is part of the bedrock strata highly shock modified metamorphic. When magnified the vug contains thin fractal quarts surface veins. These are fiber crystals a phenomena like volcanic Pele Hair. They arrive late in the impact event as shredded matter.

Minerals and Rocks of Georgia

Edward James  ·   · 

Graves Mountain Georgia found this rock at the october dig not sure what all is in it. it appears to have blue lazulite and a vug
that contained small quartz crystals and also crystal flowers of pyrophyllite

Oct. 16, 2022

Murfreesboro, TN Impact Crater Part 9: SE Inside Crater Wall, Shock Broccoli, fiber crystals, and Impact Mega Clast. 4492 Murray Kittrell Rd, Readyville, TN 37149. Shock Broccoli is a rare impact phenomenon only found close in, to the impact centers. It is a impact heat expansion, fast form. It likely arrives as a secondary splatterform but is very well bonded to the matrix. Fiber crystals are also rare and are the impact version of Pele Hair, a shredded matter filament (circled in pictures). 
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Very old impactite. Iron/Silica impalements in a quasi cubic, were formed fast. Impact impalements. Various explosion chaos in the matrix and a very old "fiber crystal." So, few people have ever seen one. Yours is a type I have not seen before. It has a crossing dark overlay. A concurrent orogeny. June 3, 2023. 
 

Keyser Soze

57m  · 

I'm looking for a lil identification help here. I have an idea but not a solid one.

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String theory? Look how these fiber crystals appear to have grown in the crevasse. While it does have some similarities to Chrysolite there is no concentration of side by side presentation. Also notice the crypto crystalline nature of the surrounding rock. March 4, 2024. 
Rockhounding For Beginners

Beth Pedersen  ·   · 

I haven't done the Mohs testing yet but I wanted to share these photos. I found this rock near ClearLake, CA. When I tried to zoom in on the gap I found these tiny string like crystals. I would love to hear anyone's guesses on this pretty rock.

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Same specimen but this presentation is different. It is consolidated in the matrix. Again high shock crypto crystalline matrix. The relation to "Linear Constellationing" is evident in this part of the specimen. March 4, 2024. 
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Shock Broccoli, a high heat mosaic surface on Tektites. April 20, 2024. 
 

GLASSY WONDERS – Volcanic & Impact Glass

Luc Vincent  ·   · 

Top quality Moldavite Vs

Top quality Indochinite

Photo 1 :

Deep sculptured Moldavite from Nesměň forest , South Bohemia ,

Czech Republic ,

Photo 2 :

The gorgeous "Chinite" Tektite at the very top of my hand, I found it in Guangxi province (South of China ) in 2003, Anda style markings,

"Glassy Wonders" from all arround the world are fascinating ,

All specimens are from my personal collection

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Shock Broccoli Iron & Fiber Crystals, Battleground quarry area, Morgan county, AL. April 20, 2024. 
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Ignore the organic debris in white the fiber crystals are the same composition as the shock broccoli and pointed to with arrow. April 20, 2024. 
Impactite. The surface is a fractal mosaic which is not common. It has direction with the trunk of the fractal being the source of the energy direction and the branching the direction of flow. Quartzite was once sand. Surface color is due to iron blasted out as a mist forming black iron oxide and some red, the mosaic splitting occurred thereafter. In magnification you can see the development of thin line quartz fractals forming fiber crystals. Fiber crystals are shredded matter like found in Hawaii called Pele Hair but your specimen is in the proto process stage of forming these thin structures. The QLD southeast crater complex is shown on the attached map with the two nested craters in the much larger older crater. The bigger two are the prime suspects as this took a whole lot of energy. July 14, 2024. 
 

Trevor Farr  ·   · 

Any ideas , found in the childers area qld.

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That is an impact sphere with fiber crystals and secondary impact nodule insert. This is what fiber crystals look like, they are not common. July 24, 2024.
 

Alabama Rockhounds & Beyond

Kevin Alan  ·   · 

The biggest job I've had yet. This thing was a pain to get up a slope.

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Impactite. Impact flow with fiber crystal. Matrix may be copper or olivine. It has a small iron area where the fiber crystal is located. As you found it buried that overburden is indicative of how long ago the impact happened. The fiber crystal rules out slag. They are only from volcanoes and impacts. Magnification attached. Aug. 22, 2024. 
 

Michael J. Rogers  ·   · 

Please help to identify it's heavy and nonmagnetic. I was digging in the ground found in soil in Pa.

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1. Shock Broccoli, a high heat mosaic effect found in impact craters. 2. Quartz crystal forms, some with striation similar to shatter cone striation. This specimen was very hot at time of formation although the 2 side was able to cool slowly enough to form crystals. The 1 side faced the impact. Aug. 25, 2024. 
 

Cheryl Hustvedt  ·   · 

 

I'm going to repost some of my rocks here that I have already posted on some other rock boards because I was getting answers from people that were just trying to be funny. And yes, they were funny but I'm trying to really find out what they are. I hope this is okay. All of the rocks I have were picked up somewhere in the NC mountains or foothills when I was younger and rockhounding with my late father. The first picture is where I think it was originally attached to something but I have no clue what. The second picture is the other side of the rock.

Very rare impact nodule type from the Huntsville Crater. See attached 1. left side Fractal Coning Flow. 2. Fiber crystal crossing from coning point. 3. curious artifact of cutting as it is a double triangle point. 4. The central isolation of cobalt from shock resonance. The fiber crystal crossings are energy type constructions. This modifies the shredded matter theory, a type 2 shock line/fiber crystal. Aug. 28, 2024. 
 

Alabama Rockhounds & Beyond

Donta Lattimore  ·   · 

I found a few of these in Huntsville the middle looks a cobalt blue. My terrible cut actually helps point out a tiny agate pocket ( I believe). Their are also tiny gold flakes in the smaller darker circle.it seems very hard. Not much light passes through. Is it just chert? Any ideas? I have a few and would like to know what I have when someone asks what it is. Thanks guys

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Lee Isham

Beautiful specimen. It has an impalement hole. This is an impactite. It appears to have carnelian sections. Is a blue residual cobalt from the impalement. When magnified you can also see white fiber crystals. Fiber crystals are only produced by impact or volcanoes. Volcanos do not produce impalements of this high energy type. Thank you for posting this pretty specimen. Oct. 5, 2024. 

What's my rock?

Adrian Regalado  ·   · 

 

Experts needed....what's my rock?thank you...

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Notice the outward coning away from the central impalement. Oct. 5, 2024. 

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Very rare side by side white and red fiber crystals. Specimen collected at the Wetumpka, AL Impact Crater. Oct. 21, 2024. 

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Interesting cusp fiber crystal found on the surface of impact mega clast at Oakville Indian Mound Park, AL. Oct. 5, 2024. 

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Fiber crystal development. With impact glass you can see this transition development. Yes it is bubbling also as it was very very hot. About 5,000 degrees F I would imagine. Has provenance is not slag glass. Nov. 26, 2024. 
 

Ivan Doležal - Dolmat

CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF "INTERESTING" OBSIDIANS SURFACE!

THE RARE "BUBBLE" OBSIDIAN

Weight: 214g

Dimensions: 80 x 70 x 20 mm

Location: Lake Sevan, Armenia

Old age: approximately 100,000 years

Price: 2,100 CZK

This rare bubble obsidian was created by the harsh cooling of very permeated lava respectively. magmaty. During its movement, magma releases volcanic gases that rise up to the surface of the melt. Due to rapid cooling, the gas bubbles preserved in obsidian make it possible to study the composition of volcanic gases. Their presence also results in a silver glow on the internal surface of the bubbles. Under these conditions, this type of obsidian was born. Its surface forms inner walls of burst bubbles and at the same time contains a large number of closed bubbles up to 1 cm in size! In addition, with the decreasing content of iron oxide, its transparency grows, and this is the case of this piece. Obsidian is a completely transparent, light brown color. In many countries, including the USA, collecting obsidian in certain locations is prohibited by law.

Lake Sevan is geologically young, about only one million years. The base consists of swelling, saliva, porphyrite and lime. The SV coast is formed by a large surface chalk opiolithic structure, while the western and southern edges of the lake are formed by linear volcanic ridges, which are known for their quadruple volcanic activity.

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Meteoimpact impactite with internal fiber crystals. It also has linear evaporation holes. While I can't be sure the fiber crystals are not lint as that is a common problem when cleaning and drying specimens off I am going to assume they are. Nov. 27, 2024. 
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Metal Wisker Phenomenon

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Zinc plating Wiskers. 

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Zinc whiskers on a zinc-coated steel 

Notice these are the fiber glass Pele Hair type. Zinc is not stable. It is used as a battery and reacts with light. While it is believed to be stable it reacts with the air and is used as a sacrificial coating. The above example has reacted with light and air. Wisker towers are the dispersion of energy type phenomena like lighting or dendrites. Zinc is both a photon emitter and absorber.  From Wiki:  Zinc is used as the anode or fuel of the zinc–air battery/fuel cell.

The relative reactivity of zinc and its ability to attract oxidation to itself makes it an efficient sacrificial anode in cathodic protection (CP)

The surface of the pure metal tarnishes quickly, eventually forming a protective passivating layer of the basic zinc carbonate, Zn
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The chemistry of zinc is dominated by the +2 oxidation state. When compounds in this oxidation state are formed, the outer shell s electrons are lost, yielding a bare zinc ion with the electronic configuration [Ar]3d10

Zinc sulfide (ZnS) is used in luminescent pigments such as on the hands of clocks, X-ray and television screens, and luminous paints.

Nanostructured Zinc Oxide

Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Metal Oxides

2021, Pages 351-374

 

13 - Zinc oxide-based light-emitting diodes and lasers

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Zinc oxide (ZnO), with its wide bandgap, excellent luminescent properties, and controlled growth of nanostructures has found useful application in electronics and photonics. This chapter describes recent progress in the tuning of the bandgap and enhancememt of conductivity of ZnO. Also techniques of n-type/p-type doping of this material for applications in light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers have been discussed. Furthermore, there is a brief review of the various material schemes and both homojunction and heterojunction device structures have been explored for developing ZnO-based LEDs. Material for fabricating these devices has been grown with a number of different techniques, such as metal–organic chemical vapor depositionmagnetron sputteringpulsed laser deposition, molecular-beam epitaxy, and helicon-wave excited-plasma sputtering.

3.2. Analysis on whisker factors in extreme environment

During the process of aircraft from take-off to landing, electronic components bear different environmental condition with multiple factors varying extreme other than in the lab: an acceleration of more than 0.5g, a large temperature range from less than –60 °C at high altitude to more than 1000 °C during landing, a low pressure maintaining at 5% of the ground pressure,40 etc. Such special environmental conditions have been proven will accelerate the growth rate of whiskers in avionics systems and components.4142 ...During the launch process, the electronic system and high-voltage solar cell array power supply system of the satellite withstand positive and negative acceleration of ±8g and high temperature flow. Meanwhile, electronic components suffer large noise and vibration from rocket launchers. When the satellites separate from the rocket in space, a high-amplitude vibration occurs to the whole structure of the satellite. Such dynamic impact makes the satellite structure bear high-frequency and amplitude waves with concentrated frequencies, which propagate in the whole structure. Therefore, the effects of shock vibration, thermal stress and high-frequency vibration on whisker growth should be considered in the design stage of electronic components used in space.35 ....It has been confirmed that high temperature accelerates the growth of whiskers,
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2023, Pages 1-13

Review

Formation and evolution mechanism of metal whiskers in extreme aerospace environments: A review

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Iron whiskers on asteroid Itokawa indicate sulfide destruction by space weathering

Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 1117 (2020)

But we already knew from the study of satellite failures that Wiskers grow in space. This just shows the natural common mineral component nature of this phenomenon. Impact forms so many of the rock types like this asteroid. 

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Coning Crystal formation. The authors of this study do not realize they are showing tempering. Nov. 4 2024. 
Nucleation and Growth of Iron Whiskers during Gaseous Reduction of Hematite Iron Ore Fines

by Lei Guo,Shengping Zhong,Qipeng Bao,Jintao Gao * and

Zhancheng Guo

State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Xueyuan Road No.30, Haidian district, Beijing 100083, China

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Metals 2019, 9(7), 750; https://doi.org/10.3390/met9070750

Submission received: 18 June 2019 / Revised: 1 July 2019 / Accepted: 2 July 2019 / Published: 4 July 2019

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Crystal forms using pressure and heat at the nano level. See how similar they are with fiber crystals. It is a dimensional issue like dendrites. Dec. 4, 2024. 
TEM images of nanosize diamond crystals produced by treatment of 1:4 homogeneous mixtures of CF 1.1 with naphthalene under pressure of 8 GPa and temperature of 1000 ° C. Figure 9 - uploaded by V. A. Davydov

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Constellationing, and banding striation with pulsing progression. Dec. 4, 2024. 

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Metal Whisker Growth Clarified

Hypothesis may help prevent failure of electronic devices

by Jyllian Kemsley
 

May 26, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 21

Pulsing dot pattern it is a wave function growth. Dec. 4, 2024. 

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Alas here comes the tempering issue again. but now we have Browning motion clustering, with relational perpendicular charge effect due to the right-angle electromagnetic relationship. Dec. 4, 2024. 
 

The effect of pre-heating and pre-cold treatment on the formation of liquation and solidification cracks of nickel-based superalloy welded by laser beam

DOI:10.1016/j.jmrt.2020.07.053

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Zhuoyi Chen

Morteza Taheri

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The present study has evaluated the solidification and liquation cracks of GTD-111 superalloy by pulsed Nd:YAG laser techniques. For this purpose, samples were subjected to different temperatures under the conditions of heat treatment (1120, 1200 and, 1230 °C), pre-cooling (−30 and 0 °C), and pre-heating (100 and 200 °C). The Rosenthal equation was used for calculation of mushy zone (MZ), partially-melted zone (PMZ), and heat-affected zone (HAZ). The values of the temperature gradient (G) and welding cooling rate (G × R) were calculated using the Rosenthal equation. The results showed that by reducing the temperature of the sample before welding (from 200 to −30 °C), the G (from 3763.5 to 5821.5 °C/mm) and the G × R (from 31,237 to 48,310.2 °C/s) increased. Experimental test results were in agreement with Rosenthal's numerical results. Microstructural studies have shown that both solidification and liquation cracks are minimized by reducing the pre-cold temperature. This is attributed to the reduction in the segregation of alloying elements and the reduction in the volume of the weld pool. Further studies of the microstructure revealed that there was a correlation between the thickness of the grain boundary (GB) liquid and the formation of cracks. In this way, if the liquation material is from γ–γ′ eutectic and M3B2 boride, increasing the liquid film thickness (LFT) increases the sensitivity to cracking (Eq. (5) in the text), and if the liquation material is from γ′ phase and MC carbide, increasing the LFT reduces the sensitivity to cracking due to increased stress release.

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1 nano meter equals 0.00003937 mil (thousands of an inch). Here we see grounding configurations, a charged phenomenon. While not marked you can also see grounding confusion, knife edge refraction, which I have marked with an arrow. Overlap harmonic lines shown in higher magnification are a resultant energy wave form. Dec. 7, 2024. 
 

3.2. Crossover of the Whiskers in Ni-MILC at 413 °C

In some cases, the whiskers can cross each other, as shown in Figure 4a, denoted by the letters A, B and C. Very often, Moiré patterns are formed in the crossing area, revealing overlapping of the whiskers in this area. This is evident in the areas A and B, as shown in the higher magnification micrograph of Figure 4b.

Nanomaterials (Basel)

. 2021 Jul 22;11(8):1878. doi: 10.3390/nano11081878

Structural Characteristics of the Si Whiskers Grown by Ni-Metal-Induced-Lateral-Crystallization

Béla Pécz 1,*, Nikolaos Vouroutzis 2, György Zoltán Radnóczi 1, Nikolaos Frangis 2, John Stoemenos 2

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Sawtooth pulse, from same article above. Dec. 7, 2024. 
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Iterative branching harmonic. The universe is full of wave harmonics. What is needed here is wave canceling technology, but how can you really do that? The universe is filled with waves of all types. Dec. 7, 2024. Figure is from the same article cited above. 
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Metal Wiskers attenuating the wave noise they are receiving. Dec.8, 2024. 
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The "Cat's Wisker" galena crystal radio. Materials that commonly make metal Wiskers are also the same that attenuate electromagnetic signals. Even though they claim to have proven that Wiskers are not influenced by waves how could you do that. The universe is permeated by waves. Dec. 8, 2024. 
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Box of different crystals to attenuate different frequencies.  Germaniumzinccadmium, and even lead are known to make Wiskers and also attenuate as crystal receivers. Dec. 8, 2024. 
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Tempering experiment showing dendrite construction. Ionizing charge is produced in these superheating temperatures which releases a charge as these electrons are knocked off their shelfs. It is a quanta effect first noticed by Albert Einstein for which he won a Noble prize. Dec. 9, 2024. 
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Now here we have a fulgurite made by lightning. While not microscopic you can see that it is projecting and even connecting in the corner. This of course is an energized made form. Dec. 9, 2024.  Picture is from the crystal council dot com. 
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And now we come full circle with a fulgurite with a fiber crystal. Metal Wiskers and Fiber Crystals are similar variants of an energy and time phenomenon of energy dispersal. Dec. 9, 2024. thecrystalcouncil.com 
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Charged surface grounding inward. Dec. 9, 2024. 
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My first Dendrite ever found. I was so excited! Limestone I believe.

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Never mind the scale, here we have gold Wiskers. Dec. 9, 2024. 

The Professional Prospector

Another unusual form of crystalline gold is this wire gold. This specimen is from a mine in Breckenridge in Colorado. The Breckenridge mining district is famous for it's wire gold specimens.

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Ice fiber crystals/Wiskers from those ice flowers that spring up at the base of plants in the early freezing season. Dec. 9, 2024. 
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A few frost flowers from my yard. I need to get to the mountains for some more ice and snow photography!

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Let's go back to tempering. Notice the needle like grain structure of this meteorite. Called Widmanstätten patterns, also known as Thomson structures. Said to not reproducible at this scale in laboratories only small grain tempering structures as shown above. Time being the missing condition, but that is just what we have going on with Metal Wiskers. This would make them a slow growth tempering phenomenon. This would also make them a valence phenomenon whereby the slow return to stable electron shelf state. In this specimen the fractal iron is also a Wisker State for the same reason. By changing size the crystal structure can return to a more stable state. Dec. 11, 2024.  Specimen by: Louis Stieffel
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Here we have a femtosecond laser crater/tempering experiment using various amounts of tempering fluid. The higher the tempering fluid the more pronounced the linear crystals. Also you can see we have a type 1 crossing wave bricking phenomenon going on. But, you have the crossing wave phenomenon with the Thompson Structures shown above. Dec. 11, 2024. 
 

Research on ablation process of constant elastic alloy with femtosecond laser in solution medium

DOI:10.1007/s00339-016-0386-z

Authors: Guilin Deng, Wenyi Su, Ji’an Duan, Nannan Fan, Xiaoyan Sun, Jianying Zhou, Cong Wang, Kai Yin, Xinran Dong. Y.W. Hu

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Shock made needle agate. The iron is from the impacting bolide/meteor. Here we also have fractal dendritic behavior. This is due to charge, the dispersing of energy to get to a ground stable state, which is exactly what you have with tempering. Dec. 11, 2024. 
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The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo), also known as The Creation of Man,[2]: plate 54  is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512.
So in 500 years you get these Wisker cracks whereby the surface is relaxing its stress. Another tempering relaxation phenomena. A void opposite metal Wisker. Dec. 11, 2024. 

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Charged impurities, fiber crystals internal in energy dispersal fibers and fractals. This is a simi conductor expression physics based on the high energy state the crystal was in and the down state ion going to stability. This was not a fast or slow origin. Just slow enough to form the normal crystal perhaps hours. It seems to be in a state of resonate twinning. Fractals of this nature would be a type of Lichtenberg figure. 13, Dec. 2024. 
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Natural citrine tower ,have phantom tower and full of blue needle soo unique!

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Pseudo fossil, impact made, it has many types of impact phenomena. Shock broccoli, impact spheres, melt folding, false strata, plasma holes. Dec. 21, 2024. 
 

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Coral in the desert

This is out in Picacho Mountains, near Picacho's Peak. I have visited it just about every year since I was a kid. It use to be twice as big but people keep breaking pieces off of it. Just thought I would share, it's always cool to look at. It seems to be sandstone or something similar filled the coral and the coral disintegrated away, leaving this formation. Maybe someone knows better or more about it?

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Type 2 low angle subduction crater, basically rolls the crust over but does have a crater wall ring on the west although complex type. A big crater like this is 300 + mya. 
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