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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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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  >>>
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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

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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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