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Tim McClard's Honeycomb Rock Trail post in detail. First the honeycomb. This is a shock made harmonic, called boxwork. This is discussed below in greater detail. Honeycomb rock trail West Virginia.
This bolder picture by Tim McClard is a shock made cinder mega clast on the Honeycomb Rock Trail, West Virginia. The voids (vesicles) are evaporation. Impact makes heat at an atomic level ripping matter apart through a shock compression rarefaction. The surviving matrix is metamorphic with nano minerals you can see by the colors. It is a particle structure from the impact pulverization as are the minerals. The shock particle storm will form a "common particle" with distance as this matrix is not it was close to impact. You can even see quarts spheres attached. These are called impact spheres. You can see my encyclopedia of impact cinders at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/cinders-shock-impact-craters
Cinders this size I associate with the large earth impact simi-accretion events. This one would be the Silurian Impact Extinction Event which is centered at the New Madrid fault and the crater wall is the Appalachian Mountains. That being said the two big impacts Huntington and the North WV crater(s) could also make this splatter and voids.
You would not think soil would be constructed all the way back to the Silurian, but look, it corresponds to the impact.
Impact Spheres, large. Old from big earth impact. Huntington Crater, WV, USA
Tiffany Cuevas
Feb. 28, 2023
Check this out! Mountains of West Virginia. We were riding the Hatfield McCoy trails, stopped for a break and I always end up wandering around and checking out the rocks and woods... Then I find this! Concretion? But I want to know how.. please explain like you're explaining to a 5 year old.
Impact boxwork random - this iron splatter is from a large meteor liquified in impact. Random splatter boxwork does not have the impact wave organization to make geometric figures like is found at the waffle rock state park and star to the NE is Waffle Rock State Park. Star above shows the location of Audra State Park. Oct. 23, 2023.
Andrea Stalnaker
I found this rock while hiking along the river at Audra State Park, West Virginia-USA. I didnt take it home that day. I went back for it later though and someone had moved it and busted it into pieces. I only have a few pieces of it now. I looks to have iron in it. Any ideas what type of rock this is? I loved the veining. Thank you! I am new to this group.
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Black and red iron oxide with silica Fe3O4SiO2. Let me offer you a few thoughts from my experience about the diatribes from those unable to think. First, they want to exclude debate as they are insecure about their science. It is called cognitive dissonance. Second, they offer no physics, a scientific mechanism but want to point you to somebody else's explanation as they are not able to truly explain. Next when I worked in the world's largest research laboratory nobody's science would be funded without a physics mechanism explanation. Impact explains your specimen completely with only one mechanism. Even though the frustrated non- scientific, exclusionary poster did not present a true case let me. As you can read on Wiki ironstone boxwork for some unexplained reason has crossing veins that become weathered reducing the in between components. Your specimen really does not look like that as it has the iron in a sheet flow but that is stacking two mechanisms one of which is unexplained. In any theory the stacking of physical mechanisms is much less likely than a single mechanism. It is why the lottery uses stacked numbers to work against your probability of winning. Another scientific backing for impact is based on Mars, West Virginia would have around 800 craters of a mile diameter or greater so impact would be a common explanation and accretion is the current scientific model for the Earth's formation. Finally, look at your location. What explanation do the diatribe's have for the intermountain anomalies? I have one, craters and again one explanation explains the specimen and the location. Oct. 25, 2023.
Impactite - Impact Bricking Type 9, the square crystal, Dodecahedral calcite. One of the many polymorphs created in a high pressure impact environment. Your crater is visible on a topo map. What will the crater look like? A bowl of central converging streams. Feb. 8, 2024.
Crystal L. Daniel · ·
Hey everyone! I found this today in Cheat Lake, WV. Does anyone know what it might be? Thanks in advance!
Honeycomb Rock, Mineral County. There are two types of boxwork, resonate and overlapping grid. This is an overlapping grid. You can see the grid density change from bottom to top as the overlapping shockwave pattern is closer at the bottom. The rock was angled with the bottom facing the sources of the impact wave splatters. It is a type of splatterform. It was pliable at the time of application and these grids will modify some. May 12, 2024.
The Waffle Rock is a product of the Chesapeake Bay Impact which is greatly under reported in size and scope. The circle does not even pretend to encompass the true size of this crater. I only put it there to show the circular nature of the Maryland and West Virginia geology. You can see it best on the USGS Magnetic Anomaly Map. But please note the extreme geological upheaval with the Precambrian basement turned over. May 12, 2024.
The USGS Magnetic Anomaly Map does not even render the true size of this impact, but putting the above Maryland geology map and this one you can see it is a thousand mile diameter crater about five times the size of Chicxulub. May 12, 2024.
Nested Impact Sphere. June 30, 2024.
I found this rock today at Gauley Bridge, WV.
Webster Springs Crater about 40 miles diameter. Crater fingers are shown in the bedrock geology. Aug. 18, 2024.
