Impact Melt Glass | Flädle Glass | 15.76 Grams | Slice | Nördlinger Ries Crater Impactite | Germany SO24 IAB-MG 1-gram Metal Ore Copper rich

1-gram Metal Ore Copper rich Impact Breccia from the famous Sudbury Astrobleme Impact Structure in Ontario Canada

Product ID: SS0271

Similar sulphides are formed in the 3rd phase

Treatment: None (unheated

No shock stage or weathering grade was recorded for these pieces

Impact Melt Glass | Flädle Glass | 15.76 Grams | Slice | Nördlinger Ries Crater Impactite | Germany SO24 IAB-MG 1-gram Metal Ore Copper richThis is an outstanding specimen of Impact Melt Glass or "Fldle" glass coming from the Ries crater near Stuttgart Germany. Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts. Impactite is a slag like glassy object found on the surface of the earth, formed from rock melted by the impact of a meteorite. The term encompasses shock metamorphosed target rocks, melts or suevites and mixtures of the two, as well as sedimentary