Impact Melt Glass | Flädle Glass | 17.9 Grams | End Cut | Nördlinger Ries Crater Impactite | Germany SO24 Mesolite From the Greek for meso

From the Greek for meso = middle and lithos = stone

others include amber and pearl

Shape: Step Top Barrel

Geologically Dalnegorsk is best described as a skarn

Impact Melt Glass | Flädle Glass | 17.9 Grams | End Cut | Nördlinger Ries Crater Impactite | Germany SO24 Mesolite From the Greek for mesoThis is an outstanding specimen 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