are these Fulgurites???

[chong2]

my friend came back from NY, he was fishing on a river when he ran into 2 guys snorkling. he asked them what they were doing and they said looking for glass made from lightning, and showed him some large pieces, fist sized. when they left, he found many small pieces, right there on the bank. now the thing is these pieces are mostly a beautiful blue with white in them. there are some bubbly dark green pieces, i think its obious that they were fused somehow. now when i google Fulgurites they are a uglystem like formations, not pretty glass like, like these. they are not agate, they make the sound of obsidian clinking in the hand, almost like glass. there is only one spot on the river where he found these. ne ideas

 

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[chong2]

pics

 

[Newt]

Looks like one in the second to last pic to me.
Newt

 

[Ammietuar]

the dark green ones looks alot like trinitite, the glass made out of sand from a nuclear explosion. i think it can be created from different processes too though.... might wanna check it with a geiger counter... lol

 

[nebstater]

None of your pictures look like any that I have seen. The second from the end picture comes the closest. All I have to base it on, is what I used to see when I was a kid. In our part of the country, lightning would hit sand dunes, and would make what looked like sand encrusted worms crawling along the surface of the sand. When you broke them open, it was a deep black in color. They resembled your item in the second to last photo, but not quite.

 

[chong2]

glass slag looks like it, ill ask if there was a factory in the area. as for the trinitite, i am about a 100 miles from the trinity site, and i know one guy that sells the stuff by the gram........ bucko bucks

 

[chong2]

but how come ours have sand burnt/encrusted in them/

 

[DanB]

the over pour or sluff is cast of in the sand......any Iron rocks in the area.....maybe you found the sight of an old foundry. Looks like a lot of nice glass.

db

 

[Monty]

Glass is made from sand! Monty

 

[chong2]

i dunno on the iron, my friend found them, monty, i thought glass was made from fossilized dirt........... thats sarcasim coming out of my fingers

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

no idea, but they sure are pretty. :P the second to last pic is certainly odd...

 

[flyinguy]

second to last. petrified slug? i don't know but the things are pretty.

 

[ac385]

Fulgurites will be hollow, fragile and ugly like burnt dirt that has crystallized into almost glass. I read a great story last week about someone taking model rockets with wire attached and firing them into thunder heads to produce lightning strikes and hence a fulgurite on the other end of the wire where they have it buried in the earth. Anyone want to try this and report back to us on how things went? Assuming the lightning doesn’t ark and kill you that is.

 

[chong2]

i actually have wanted to try that, no lie. since i never got into the pole in the sand thing, i am into rockets, just need to figure how much wire, what kind and what gauge.

 

[Monty]

Not trying to be sarcastic, just lived near a glass plant for years. Many people haven't a clue how glass is made. Monty

 

[chong2]

well, here is what my friend has to say on this topic, i emailed the link to him and he says this back..........................
Hey bro. One commented that they might be leftover glass shards from a factory, impossible. there is nothing near this area, especially, not a glass factory. I'm not quite sure this is the only spot on the river where these shards can be harvested, just the only place I have seen. One also said something about a nuclear fusion, or another process, I would check that out. I should have got more. When I get to NY I'll be sure to get some outstanding pieces, bigger. I was tooooo busy fishing to pay the glass much more mind than I did. But I'm gald I got them anyway.

 

[CoolFrayers]

We have the EXACT same stuff in the creek behind our home. Well, not the second to last picture- but the other ones. It comes from an old Foundry up the creek about 20 miles away. Various floods over the years have carried thousands of the boogers down the creek.

 

[chong2]

do you know where they originated from coolfrayers? like i was saying before, the snorklers were pulling up, big chunks of this stuff.

 

[CoolFrayers]

I am in Michigan on business at the moment. But if you would like, when I get back home I can take pictures of them for you and post them.
I live in Pennsylvania, the soonest would be friday. Or, just drop me an email at:
coolfrayers@yahoo.com
I will share anything that I know about them with you. I moved to Pennsylvania from Arizona, and when I first saw them I got excited; until I was educated on them. Our children still drag them up to the house thinking they are the coolest thing. Then, I throw them back to the creek when they are at school.
Sorry to be the one that "has the bad news"; the fact is, they are what they are.

 

[CoolFrayers]

but how come ours have sand burnt/encrusted in them/

The sand is not "burnt" into them, however that is a close evaluation.
In a foundry they use sand/minerals in the process. The "sand" you see is from the outter part of the process, it did not get hot enough to melt and become the "glassy" rock you found. They bond together- your friend who is so certain a Foundry is not part of this process is ill informed. Could this have been a "dump" area in the past? Worth looking into. I do know that the divers wasting their H2O on the dives is not worth the money.