Somebody intelligent please help identify!!

[digordie]

Found two of these while digging for artifacts. It is not glass. Will not even melt at 1000°c. It will scratch glass but doesnt test as a diamond. Under a scope you can see vien type lines covering the surface. Cupping pits on surface where pieces have chipped out but no fracture line bubbles or inclusions. Has a pinkish color but crystal clear after firing at hot temperatures. Its is farely light weight. Totally looks like glass but is not. Any ideas out there would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

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[DiggityDiggity]

Interesting find m8. Looks like quartz to me from your description. I've found similar pieces in my neck of the woods. Btw, just a quick WTH to the peeps rudely responding to this dude. Stroke your egos somewhere else. He's just looking for info. I know this is the internet, but do you really have to be that miserable?

 

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[Bajahunter]

Those arn't the right answers for topaz.
So I'll go with the majority and say a quartz crystal that had a hard life.

 

[digordie]

Thanks guys for all the input and collective knowledge.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

only intelligent thing I have for in here is PLEASE stop dragging decent stones across glass or mirrors to test if they are REAL...

really...just stop that bad habit prior to even attempting the activity.

 

[Rockhunter1620]

Ok, my last 2 pennies here digordie,
I have narrowed it down to man made glass or natural quartz, b'cause you recovered it from a couple ft. of soil, in a silty clay layer of ground
and most of it's surface is rounded and smooth prolly from runnin water, I'm sayin quartz. I know it's NOT obsidian, the only other thing
it might have been (short of man-made glass). Man made glass could not have been worn so smooth in justa 100 yrs., but there's so much one can learn
on there own from just one website, one of 100's, here, go here, not just you but all who have commented on this thread. If you can afford coffee filters
and internet service, you can afford the couple little tools ya need, but more important, need to do more readin!

ISGS - Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Illinois

RH

 

[digordie]

Ok, my last 2 pennies here digordie,
I have narrowed it down to man made glass or natural quartz, b'cause you recovered it from a couple ft. of soil, in a silty clay layer of ground
and most of it's surface is rounded and smooth prolly from runnin water, I'm sayin quartz. I know it's NOT obsidian, the only other thing
it might have been (short of man-made glass). Man made glass could not have been worn so smooth in justa 100 yrs., but there's so much one can learn
on there own from just one website, one of 100's, here, go here, not just you but all who have commented on this thread. If you can afford coffee filters
and internet service, you can afford the couple little tools ya need, but more important, need to do more readin!

ISGS - Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Illinois

RH

Thanks rockhunter for your input and info. Definatly will check out the sight you provided. Thanks again.

 

[StoneWhisper]

The last images you posted, tell me your on the right track for identifing the sample.. Clearly I see that it's more glass like than quartz like..

btw.. here is your melting point of glass...

 

[digordie]

The last images you posted, tell me your on the right track for identifing the sample.. Clearly I see that it's more glass like than quartz like..

btw.. here is your melting point of glass...

Thanks for your post very informative sight. Maybe a dumb question but does anyone know anything in regaurds to lightning forming glass?

 

[Bajahunter]

It doesn't look like a crystal. Looks like a tube. Pretty fragile.
Needs to have sand with a high silica content.

 

[StoneWhisper]

..lightning forming glass?

I can't say for sure on this question, but anything is possiable due tot he fact I've visited my aunts home in TN where in her back yard they have whats called "Day Light Bursts" or daylight lightening strikes.. Afterward I would enter the field where I noticed the strike.. and found shards or limestone.. burnt.. Thou in this same field I found nearly 200 ill formed thunder eggs.. Could this be where the "thunder" egg gets its name.. we will have to explore her field more again soon.

 

[digordie]

I can't say for sure on this question, but anything is possiable due tot he fact I've visited my aunts home in TN where in her back yard they have whats called "Day Light Bursts" or daylight lightening strikes.. Afterward I would enter the field where I noticed the strike.. and found shards or limestone.. burnt.. Thou in this same field I found nearly 200 ill formed thunder eggs.. Could this be where the "thunder" egg gets its name.. we will have to explore her field more again soon.

Really.. so what exactly are these thunder eggs, do you have any pictures you could post?

 

[Rockhunter1620]

Really.. so what exactly are these thunder eggs, do you have any pictures you could post?

Thundereggs are nothing more than geodes.


Thundereggs.... thunderegg - Bing Images=

Lightning glass otherwise known as fulgurite is formed from sand and soil on or in the ground where there's a direct lightning strike,
and usually very fragile.

Fulgurite-Lightning glass... Fulgurite Lightning Glass - Bing Images

RH

 

[digordie]

Thundereggs are nothing more than geodes.

Thundereggs.... thunderegg - Bing Images=

Lightning glass otherwise known as fulgurite is formed from sand and soil on or in the ground where there's a direct lightning strike,
and usually very fragile.

Fulgurite-Lightning glass... Fulgurite Lightning Glass - Bing Images

RH

Thanks for the info. Those are definitely interesting fulgurite pictures.

 

[StoneWhisper]

Several tiems I've attempted to post pics via my storage server.. yet everytime I try to so.. the server is slow loading.. this has been going on for weeks.. I'll get soemthing up when I'm able to access my images.. As for what "others" have told you about thunder eggs.. I would have to say this is one area I excel in.. seeing how this was the firts are that actually got me started in searching for stones/rocks/crystals.. My personal beleif is that they are not the same as a geode.. yet can contine many of the same characteristics. Also.. I like when others post image "Not of their own" that rediect users to differant pages and not of their own.. Yes I have both, geodes and thunder eggs.. and as soon as I get this issue corrected with my image service.. I'll post pics.

 

[digordie]

Several tiems I've attempted to post pics via my storage server.. yet everytime I try to so.. the server is slow loading.. this has been going on for weeks.. I'll get soemthing up when I'm able to access my images.. As for what "others" have told you about thunder eggs.. I would have to say this is one area I excel in.. seeing how this was the firts are that actually got me started in searching for stones/rocks/crystals.. My personal beleif is that they are not the same as a geode.. yet can contine many of the same characteristics. Also.. I like when others post image "Not of their own" that rediect users to differant pages and not of their own.. Yes I have both, geodes and thunder eggs.. and as soon as I get this issue corrected with my image service.. I'll post pics.

Looking forward to seeing your pictures of thunder eggs when you find a way to post them. Thanks.