South Carolina Impact Craters
Buford Crater
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Here we are with a specimen with somewhat opal luster, from the Buford Crater. It is a progressive metamorphic. From the right is instant chert a silica melt impact product. Then it goes into the particle storm center which is also a mix of the impact materials but with forms present. Circled is the constellationing fractal form. And left side it is going into quartz crystal with some iron and manganese color. The fast formed crystal is a resonate product and this has low resonance so not big crystals. It is thought that big crystals take thousands of years, no just a lot more resonance to vibrate the structure into place.
Shock cinder (meta volcanic artifact) - Surface is vaporizing. This level of heat is very high. Yes, you do see this with slag also.
High shock geometrics - The evaporative holes are a progression of the surface pattern geometrics. You can see the progression in the forms still present. Shock linear and circle "Constellationing." This granular crystal habit is a high energy rejection pattern form. A state just before melting into a combined substance. These type specimens are found in areas of South Carolina and are called Meta Volcanic Artifacts. This misnomer is because they are crater made and show up where there are no volcanoes. An impactite can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles by the way so the earth is replete with "Meta Volcanic Artifacts." The earth has over a million craters of one mile diameter or more as Mars has over half a million and is half the earth's size.
Grant Hadley · Oct. 20, 2022
Any idea what this is? Found Sunday at Diamond Hill mine in SC
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Research and Presentations / Metavolcanic Artifact Distribution in the Long Cane Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest
Metavolcanic Artifact Distribution in the Long Cane Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest
A Brief Distributional Assessment of Metavolcanic Artifacts and Sources
in the Long Cane District of the Sumter National Forest
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Paper presented by Bobby Southerlin
at the Annual Conference of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 2012
An impact crater in northeast South Carolina inferred from potential field data
Pradeep Talwani, Eric Wildermuth, and Chris D. Parkinson
Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 30, NO. 7, 1366, doi:10.1029/2003GL017051, 2003
Notice how the two bigger craters and the four small craters were ignored in this article which proports to have found their small crater by examining the anomaly mapping. Feb. 27, 2024.