[Rockhounds] fulgurites

[Lawrence Rush]

Bob: Fulgurites are hard to find. The best way is to see precisely where a 
lightning strike has taken place, and look over the surface there (after the 
storm!). The bolt may follow a tree trunk into the ground, too. Since you 
live in NJ, the beach is a good spot to look after a strong lightning storm. 
The quartz beach sand will be fused into tubular, twisting forms at and 
under the beach surface, sometimes for relatively long distances into the 
surface depending on the strength of the strike. I have heard of people also 
finding them at the site of car crashes, where a car has struck and knocked 
down the power poles and where the live wires have sparked against the dirt 
and gravel on the roadside. Are these Fulgurites??? Some are sold as such, 
even if they are not formed by lightning. I have also heard of an 
enterprising shyster in Florida who takes a welding machine to a remote area 
and somehow fuses the sand with that. (Let the buyer beware!!). I would be 
careful of the ones being sold on E-Bay or the web from overseas, for the 
same kinds of reasons.

Larry Rush


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROBERT A SANTEE" <timeman123 at optonline.net>
To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: [Rockhounds] fulgurites


> Hi can anybody give me any info how I can find fulgurites I just started 
> to collect them and I thought it would be great to look for them.I live in 
> New Jersey and I do not no if that would be a good area to collect them 
> any info would be great thanks bob.
>
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