Specimen #2528

Name: Flugurite

Type: Mineral

Locality: Great Sand Sea, Matruh Governorate, Egypt

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

Size: 11.1 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm

Weight: 5

Acquired: 2013-08-15

Source: Arkenstone Auction

Label: N

Comment: A fulgurite is formed when lightning flashes into desert sand and literally melts the sand around the impact site into a glass cast following the shape of the electrical discharge. Obviously, large fulgurites, being thin-walled, hollow and elongated as they are, are fragile and hard to obtain. This is a fairly good-sized specimen, though, and from the classic locality for the material that I first was fascinated by as a kid, several decades ago now.

Minerals: Fulgurites

There are 3 pictures on file

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Fulgurite, Great Sand Sea, Matruh Governorate, Egypt - 11.1 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm

M02528-02.jpg:

Fulgurite, Great Sand Sea, Matruh Governorate, Egypt

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Fulgurite, Great Sand Sea, Matruh Governorate, Egypt