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Old 01-20-2023, 08:09 PM   #856 (permalink)
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Fulgurite
Fulgurites, commonly known as "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into ground. When composed of silica, fulgurites are classified as a variety of the mineraloid lechatelierite. Wikipedia
This is a faint echo of the forces that forged the mesas of the American Southwest.
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