Impact Melt Glass | Flädle Glass | 12.67 Grams | End Cut | Lake Mien Crater Impactite | Sweden | SO24
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This is an outstanding specimen of Impact Melt Glass or "Flädle" glass from the Lake Mien crater, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the town of Tingsryd, Sweden. Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts.
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 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 eroded crater is marked by a 5.5-km (3.4-mi) diameter circular lake named Lake Mien. The original crater rim is estimated to have been about 9 km in diameter before erosion. Its age is estimated to be 121.0 ± 2.3 million years (Early Cretaceous). This Suevitic breccia with clastic matrix and melt inclusions (black) and crystalline rock clasts (gray to white) is amazingly light considering its 12.67 grams with a mass of 36x34x12 mm. It has a unique hollow sound when you tap it.
Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
Impact Melt Glass | Flädle Glass | 12.67 Grams | End Cut | Lake Mien Crater Impactite | Sweden | SO24
This is an outstanding specimen of Impact Melt Glass or "Flädle" glass from the Lake Mien crater, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the town of Tingsryd, Sweden. Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts.
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 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 eroded crater is marked by a 5.5-km (3.4-mi) diameter circular lake named Lake Mien. The original crater rim is estimated to have been about 9 km in diameter before erosion. Its age is estimated to be 121.0 ± 2.3 million years (Early Cretaceous). This Suevitic breccia with clastic matrix and melt inclusions (black) and crystalline rock clasts (gray to white) is amazingly light considering its 12.67 grams with a mass of 36x34x12 mm. It has a unique hollow sound when you tap it.
Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.
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