AWESOME COOL FRACTURED IMPACT CRATER QUARTZ 92.3 GRAM

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Hi Friends, Presented in this auction is a Awesome Cool Fractured Impact Crater Quartz 92.3 Grams. This stone is from the theorized Weaubleau Osceola Meteorite Impact Crater Structure [310 to 340 million years since impact] in Missouri. This stone eroded from the ground in its fractured condition, I did not break any of these. This stone is a solid crystal form with crystal pocket on the fracture side and healed lightning crack running through rounded side. I think some of these crater quartz may be electrically fractured from the meteor or through lightning strike as the stones were close to the Earths' surface. Quartz is a semi-conductor in water. The quartz from the crater had a turbulent past but has grown past that. Some types of micro crystal quartz grown from recrystallization of glassy stone in low pressure scientists say could take millions of years. I don't know exactly how this stone formed but it was found eroding out of the siltstone in the crater like Missouri Round Rocks; which some experts associate with meteorite impact. My guess is these quartz formations were influenced by what caused the crater. Maybe these were glassy stones buried and metamorphic for millions of years becoming quartz. Perhaps they were impactites melted fractured and re-healed. It was found in a field which contained many impacted melted fractured and deformed stones as well as Missouri Round Rocks [strange conglomerate stones which I've humorously termed Flying Breccia]. Also are softer flinty concretions formed in the pockets of the shale with obvious water marks. The huge meteorite hit a sand bed in a shallow sea which would have formed some glass, fused quartz and shock quartz. The carbonate[sedimentary limestone] impacted stone would have recrystallized quickly causing a strange mix. The impact discharged massive electrical and shock forces for many miles around the impact carving lightning like channels in the Earth which are now rivers. This stone could have been fused or impacted and crystallized through ground water and low pressure over 300 million years to its current form. This stone could contain shock quartz under its growth. It perhaps is just a mysterious stone from a known probable impact site. A rare quartz form; one of a kind specimen. *This stone weighs 92.3 grams and measures 55 mm by 48 mm by 30 mm. These Stones Are As Found Out Of The Ground-. *The stone pictured is the one you will get. The micro structure of this makes a fine microscope specimen as well. *** 49 states USA FREE SHIPPING -***International, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, etc.-Shipping is $10 for the 1st item and free combined shipping for additional items won after 14 days of the 1st item won. A few years ago one of my friends owned the land in the middle southwest of the crater and we use to hunt there for meteorite evidence. The site, 12 mile wide 310-340 million year old theorized Weaubleau-Osceola Meteorite Impact Structure is recently discovered and partially verified -had been hidden by time. My friend and I, both of us rock-hounds, have studied stones from the crater for many years. Please check for info on Weaubleau Osceola Meteor Impact Crater Structure on any search engine. I am the finder of the stone/s and verify the stones were found in the crater area which can be seen on the maps. I am a rock collector from Kansas City. *The Osceola Weaubleau Structure in Missouri has many strange stones. Most stones in the area are filled with quartz. Even some flint and chert containing fossils is magnetic in the crater zone. Many rounded forms of glassy flint and chert are abundant, perhaps could have been tektites in theory. Missouri round rocks, as they're called is a type of conglomerate[grainy to fused] stone directly associated with the meteor impact. Missouri round rocks contain green shale which was blasted up in drops and became seed for mineral and fragment precipitation. There are many rounded glassy chocolate colored stones common in the crater area and for miles around the crater area. The 1200 foot met... read more

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