Australite Tektite, 1.23g, South-Western Australia Quartz Romania Includes: Mineral ID label

Includes: Mineral ID label

This specimen is flat on the bottom with a slightly dome top crystal structure and lots of texture

This Moldavite is from an old collection

originally purchased in the 1990s

Zambezia Province

Australite Tektite, 1.23g, South-Western Australia Quartz Romania Includes: Mineral ID labelAustralites are tektites, a natural glass formed during a meteorite impact. Australites formed about 700,000 800,000 years ago when a massive meteorite impacted Earth. The impact glass was blasted high into the upper atmosphere, where it cooled and began its descent back to Earth. As the tektites re entered our atmosphere, traveling at high velocity, aero dynamic ablation occurred, causing the outer surface of the tektite to melt away, leaving the