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This is a rare and fantastic 5 gram Libyan Desert Glass Tektite from Kuffra, Libya, with dimensions of 27x19x12 mm. Although not a meteorite, tektite is directly linked to their impacts; just consider its age of around 780,000 years old.
Tektite is interesting because of the persistent mystery that resisted clear explanations of there creation for generations of geologists.
This piece displays extremely well and is a quality translucent specimen. It has an aesthetic shape with a beautiful wind eroded body from the years spent in the Desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
This is a rare and fantastic 2.2 gram Libyan Desert Glass Tektite from Kuffra, Libya, with dimensions of 21x17x7 mm. Although not a meteorite, tektite is directly linked to their impacts; just consider its age of around 780,000 years old.
Tektite is interesting because of the persistent mystery that resisted clear explanations of there creation for generations of geologists.
This piece displays extremely well and is a quality translucent specimen. It has an aesthetic shape with a beautiful wind eroded body from the years spent in the Desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
$38.60 CAD
Unit price perThis is a fantastic Impactite Fallback Breccia from Germany weighing 77.2 grams and measuring 79x66x11mm. Although not a meteorite, impactites and shatter cones are directly linked to them and their impacts. The Steinheim Basin today exhibits a distinct morphological depression that is ∼110 m deep and ∼3.5 km in diameter; the height of the central uplift totals to more than 140 m. The original size of the pristine crater is estimated to be ∼3.8 km with an original depth of ∼205 m.
As this drainless morphological depression was filled by lake sediments shortly after the impact, the primary crater morphology is widely preserved. The crater rim is formed by steeply inclined and intensely brecciated Upper Jurassic limestone blocks that also contain numerous shattered chert nodules, as well as some loose blocks of the host limestone. An impact breccia, referred to as the so-called ”Primäre Beckenbrekzie” (“primary basin breccia”) and interpreted as a “fallback breccia”, is known from many drillings in the Steinheim Basin.
Mainly composed of Middle to Upper Jurassic limestones, marls, mudstones, and sandstones, the impact breccia inside the morphological depression of the Steinheim Basin is overlain by lake sediments and is obviously preserved in its original thickness and position. This piece displays very well and is a very nice size showing multiple characteristics of its origin. Would make a beautiful addition to any collection.
$62.34 CAD
Unit price perThis is a rare 46.5-gram Kara Crater Impactite specimen from the Yugorsky Peninsula in Nenetsla, Russia. Its dimensions are 86x46x12 mm. This end cut of impactite is from the largest crater of the Kara region, formed by an asteroid impact around 79,000 years ago.
Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts and are probably going to be one of the rarest collection pieces you'll ever own.
Take a closer look at a piece of history with this remarkable impactite. A highly unique addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
$34.60 CAD
Unit price perThis is a fantastic Impactite Fallback Breccia from Germany weighing 69.2 grams and measuring 72x66x10mm. Although not a meteorite, impactites and shatter cones are directly linked to them and their impacts. The Steinheim Basin today exhibits a distinct morphological depression that is ∼110 m deep and ∼3.5 km in diameter; the height of the central uplift totals to more than 140 m. The original size of the pristine crater is estimated to be ∼3.8 km with an original depth of ∼205 m.
As this drainless morphological depression was filled by lake sediments shortly after the impact, the primary crater morphology is widely preserved. The crater rim is formed by steeply inclined and intensely brecciated Upper Jurassic limestone blocks that also contain numerous shattered chert nodules, as well as some loose blocks of the host limestone. An impact breccia, referred to as the so-called ”Primäre Beckenbrekzie” (“primary basin breccia”) and interpreted as a “fallback breccia”, is known from many drillings in the Steinheim Basin.
Mainly composed of Middle to Upper Jurassic limestones, marls, mudstones, and sandstones, the impact breccia inside the morphological depression of the Steinheim Basin is overlain by lake sediments and is obviously preserved in its original thickness and position. This piece displays very well and is a very nice size showing multiple characteristics of its origin. Would make a beautiful addition to any collection.
$82.59 CAD
Unit price perThis is a rare 61.6-gram Kara Crater Impactite specimen from the Yugorsky Peninsula in Nenetsla, Russia. Its dimensions are 84x59x10 mm. This slice of impactite is from the largest crater of the Kara region, formed by an asteroid impact around 79,000 years ago.
Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts and are probably going to be one of the rarest collection pieces you'll ever own.
Take a closer look at a piece of history with this remarkable impactite. A highly unique addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
$27.34 CAD
Unit price perThis is a must have 40.8 gram Impact Vesicular Breccia, also referred to as Suevite, coming from the famous Rochechouart impact structure in Southwestern France, near the village of La Valette. Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts and are probably going to be one of the rarest collection items you'll ever own. Impactite is a slag-like glassy object found on the surface of the earth, formed from rock melted by the impact of a meteorite.
The term impactite encompasses shock-metamorphosed target rocks, melts or suevites and mixtures of the two, as well as sedimentary rocks with significant impact-derived components and shocked mineral grains, tektites, anomalous geochemical signatures, etc. This impactite was formed 186 million years ago. This deformed rock fragments and partly molten are imbedded in a melt matrix showing typical flow structures from former melt.
This gorgeous slice displays very well with a mass of 87x46x11 mm. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
$28.30 CAD
Unit price perThis is a beautiful 28.3 gram Impact Melt Breccia also referred to as Suevite coming from the Alte Burg Quarry south rim area of the famous Ries crater Germany. Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts and are probably going to be one of the rarest collection item you'll ever own. Impactite is a slag-like glassy object found on the surface of the earth, formed from rock melted by the impact of a meteorite.
The term impactite encompasses shock-metamorphosed target rocks, melts or suevites and mixtures of the two, as well as sedimentary rocks with significant impact-derived components and shocked mineral grains, tektites, anomalous geochemical signatures, etc. This impactite was formed 14.5 million years ago in Malmian or Jurassic limestone when a meteorite crashed into the earth making a ~10 miles wide crater named the Ries crater in Germany. This gorgeous end piece displays very well and shows typical inclusions of glass bomb as the dark material and crystalline fragments visible throughout the specimen showing the stages of shock metamorphism.
It is amazingly light considering its mass of 65x39x14 mm.
This rock and the quarry it came from is famous since the Nördlingen St-Georgs-Kirch Cathedral was built using this special material. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.