Petrified Lightning - 2.647" Saharan Fulgurite rockinaboxcavebear The film was an instant

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" ~ Paul McCartney

From firmaments and flat Earths to low-orbit illusions

178" wood fragment of the original 1923 sign salvaged during the reconstruction

Petrified Lightning - 2.647" Saharan Fulgurite rockinaboxcavebear The film was an instantAbove: Front of the Specimen Card. When lightning strikes dry sand, the intense heat melts and fuses the silica creating tubes of rough glass called fulgurites. The process happens quickly, often trapping molecules from the surrounding atmosphere inside the walls of the impact tube. These natural time capsules allow scientists to study the composition of ancient climates. This specimen is a 2. 647" fulgurite collected in the Sahara Desert. Originally