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Jay2010 Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 83 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2024 Gender:	Lots of glass Jan 30^th, 2024 at 4:16pm	Print Post
	There was a lot of glass to be found, like the little metallic-like spheres, it was found inside of rocks and in soil samples. I'm not sure but I think the first three photos might be shocked glass, I found two such specimen. There were a lot of the pieces with the little air bubbles found, would love to analysis some of the air inside of those bubbles someday.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #1 - Jan 31^st, 2024 at 7:46pm	Print Post
	The piece with air bubbles is super cool! I mean I think those are just awesome as can be, Very unusual! A Keeper for sure. Find some more of that!!! I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before! Now I can't say if the quartz in your first 3 pics has been 'shocked' or not, but the parallel striations are a very common growth habit of quartz. They are a good identifying characteristic/signature for quartz, so not unusual. The overall shape of the piece does look possibly "melted" or stressed? Thanks for the pics!


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Jay2010 Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 83 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2024 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #2 - Feb 3^rd, 2024 at 3:38pm	Print Post
	Those bubbles are cool, I found one that has what looks like the bubbles are full of sediments. Some of the glass was really strange, Check out this little piece, I don't have a clue as to what this is about .

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #3 - Feb 3^rd, 2024 at 9:22pm	Print Post
	Wow, Jay, Thanks for the pictures! I don't have a clue either, but that's a Keeper! There's a world of stuff going on in that piece! I wonder if some of the transparent geometric shapes are pieces of mica?


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Jay2010 Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 83 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2024 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #4 - Feb 5^th, 2024 at 5:49pm	Print Post
	You're right Joe, there is something really strange going on in that area and I'm slowly piecing together the puzzle. Take a look at this odd specimen below, shocked quartz is identified by these lines that show up under a scope which they call, planar deformation features (PDF). This piece looks like it was shocked, horrified and terrified all at once.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #5 - Feb 5^th, 2024 at 8:44pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the pictures, Jay! This stuff is in-freakin'-credible! You could spend years, decades, trying to answer all the questions this poses. I wouldn't know where to begin. Just amazing! Keep us posted!


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2975 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #6 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 10:26am	Print Post
	Very neat stuff! The worm structures I believe to be created by vermiform chlorite. Here's a picture of a crystal I found in Wake County where the vermiform chlorite has been completely weathered away leaving just the cavities.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4211 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #7 - Feb 13^th, 2024 at 11:06am	Print Post
	Looks like a match to me. Thanks for the picture. One mystery solved.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #8 - Feb 13^th, 2024 at 2:31pm	Print Post
	Looks like it had worms..


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Jay2010 Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 83 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2024 Gender:	Re: Lots of glass Reply #9 - Feb 13^th, 2024 at 4:06pm	Print Post
	Nice photo Scott, thanks for sharing, this gives me something new to read about.


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