Petrified Lightning - 2.647" Saharan Fulgurite rockinaboxcavebear recovered from Utah's Wheeler Shale

recovered from Utah's Wheeler Shale Formation

Once they sell out

the ice age is still ongoing today

the fortress was one of Tepes's favorite haunts

178" wood fragment of the original 1923 sign salvaged during the reconstruction

Petrified Lightning - 2.647" Saharan Fulgurite rockinaboxcavebear recovered from Utah's Wheeler ShaleAbove: Front of the Specimen Card. When lightning strikes dry sand, the intense heat melts and fuses the silica creating tubes of rough glass called fulgurites. The process happens quickly, often trapping molecules from the surrounding atmosphere inside the walls of the impact tube. These natural time capsules allow scientists to study the composition of ancient climates. This specimen is a 2. 647" fulgurite collected in the Sahara Desert. Originally