Album 3 - High-Temperature Impact Melt
Glass coating on rock
close-up: glass coating on rock.
impact melt rock
impact melt rock
close up of the grains in impact melt rock
Impact melt rock with gas pockets and showing melt flow band.
Melt rock showing gas pockets and melt flow
Comet Impact Inquiry
"Science Related" not "Scientifically Related"
Group of fractured shock melt pseudotachylite rocks
Highly glossy shock melt pseudotachylite rock with minerals turn to glass.
Shock melt pseudotachylite rock fragments with heated country rock and glass minerals.
Shock melt pseudotachylite rocks with heated country rocks and shock melt veins.
Shock melt rocks
group of pseudotachylite rocks
Shock melt mud and minerals over heated country rocks.
Shock melt minerals over rock fragments
Close up of calcite glass minerals in pseudotachylite.
Shock melt pseudotachylite with glass minerals.
Baked mud adhering to heated country rock and shock-melt pseudotachylite fragments, the glassy obsidian look-a-like
in situ formation. The grayish portions of these rocks are black on the inside as the last photo shows.
Group of high-temperature
melt rocks with close-ups
(photos 1 - 7)!
Pseudotachylite lancet fracture markings typical of glass fracture
breaks show that the gray and grayish white rocks are black on the inside.
Additional photos for section 3, covering impact structure criteria 4, on high-temperature
evidence.
Group of impact melt rocks with a pumice-like appearance.
Impact glassy pumice-like melt rocks.
Surface of the glassy pumice-like impact melt rock with a duller black appearance.
Close-up on the surface of the glassy pumice-like melt rock that has a blacker and shinier appearance.
Impact melt rocks, some with surface that are a dull black and fine texture and others with surface that are intense black and glassy in appearance.
These rocks have a pumice-like appearance, however, with smaller vesicles and a much gentler looking surface than those seen on pumice or scoria
formed from lava flow.
Group of comet impact melt glass or portions of the comet.
Cometary impact melt material or comet material of foamy, vesicular glass.
Group of highly magnetic impact melt glass or comet material.
These pieces of impact melt material have glassy, foamy, vesicular melt material on one edge.
melt glass - glassy cinders - foamy glass from the comet impact melt or I am leaning more to this being a part of the comet as it is magnetic.
Close up of the glass melt, vesicular cinders showing the gas pockets and glass minerals.
Highly magnetic vesicular, mixture of glass and metal believed to be portions of the comet's fusion crust. A high metal content fragment is seen on
the far right (photo 2). The aggregate of colors showing on the fragments may be indicative of the pieces being subjected to very high temperature.
Close-up on broken fragments showing glass and vesicles (photo 4).
Shock-induced quartz transformation to lechatelierite.
close-up on lechatelierite, the glassy silica fused sand, formed during the comet's impact.
Close-up on reverse side of fused sand - lechatelierite.
Shock-induced transformation of quartz to fused silica glass - lechatelierite (photos 1 - 3). Have not identify the melt in photo 4, only, the fragments
show a thin line of foamy melt glass on the edges.
Block of carbonate-phosphate melt rock
carbonate-phosphate melt
carbonate-phosphate melt rock close
Believed to be carbonate-phosphate melt rock... one of the many unusual impact melt rock to be found in Sedimentary target (photos 1 - 3). Possible
calcite crystals surrounded by phosphate glass (photos 4 & 5).
calcite crystals with phosphate glass.
calcite crystal polymorph surrounded by phosphate glass.
Group of glass-like graphite and dull graphite.
View of glass-like graphite and the graphite with dull surface appearance.
Dull carbon material with planes, however, haphazardly layered.
conchoidal fracture and lancet markings on glass-like graphitic material.
Beautiful colors on graphite generated from high temperature... similar to those seen on tempered steel.
Chunk of glassy graphite subjected to high temperature.
Close-up on surface of glass-like graphite.
Graphite subjected to high temperature with crystals sparkling on its surface.
Sparkles on glass-like carbon.
Glass-like graphite showing no natural planes of separation.
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Piece of glass-like carbon with crystals on the surface.
The surface of some pieces of the glass-like carbon glisten with crystals believed to be diamond.
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Glass-like carbon with conchoidal fractures and lancet markings typical of glass fractures (photo 2). This piece of carbon appeared in between that of
the glass-like carbon and the dull graphite. Its layers are align for the most part with colors one would see on a piece of tendered steel indicating that
it experienced high temperature (photo 3). Surface appearance of the glass-like carbon and the dull graphite (photo 4). Glass-like carbon with sheets,
with diagonal lines on each sheets, haphazardly placed on the block (photo 5).
Dull graphite with layers, however, the placement of each layer appears unfinished and bumpy (photo 6) Glassy carbon with the appearance of
having experienced high temperature. On close inspection, its surface sparkles with tiny crystals (photo 7). Photos 8 - 12 is my attempt to show the
crystals using a 30x magnifier.
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