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Agates, fossil, heat, resonate.
Shocked Fossil Agate - Up-valued change. Besides the imprinted marbled limestone so characteristic of the Frankewing (Howell) Impact Event, I found a single shocked fossil agate close in near Fuss Hollow. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76dtPk8gOpo
The reason I think this was a Brassfield Chert Fossil is, this close to so large an explosion will blast down to older strata with newer formations like Fort Payne Chert destroyed rather than changed. This is the only example of it's type on earth that I am aware of.
Specimen above was found in creek entering Lake Logan, TN. It is forming "fuss hollite." The amount of shock has not made it into a melted enough state to form the spheres yet but is organizing it that way. It was coral I think.
Specimens above from North crater have "over shock." Rather than the pretty bubble shapes they are reduced to wave pattern and brittle. Brittle usually means over shock. I think these all coral also.
Yea, this is why I joined all those identify my rock facebook groups. Another shock fossil agate. Beautiful. Has the quickly disappearing fossil surface so characteristic or shock which acts like a microwave oven cooking from the inside out. It also has iron from the meteor it's self and some constellationing going on and an oyster shell melting on it's surface. Strange.
shock fade, melt, and meteor iron blast
Tina Sims
· Oct. 26, 2022
Please help me figure out what this one is. I found in Lake Superior somewhere between Paradise and Muskallonge. All the same rock.
When magnified you will see small surface iron impalements, some with halos. These iron bits are blasted from the impacting bolide a progressive explosion event. Shock arrived first, larger mass sections absorb more therefore crypto crystalline and lost the fossil impressions as you can see them fade.
Arachnophyllum striatum
Shock fossil alteration, "Picasso Effect." Made suddenly, with high energy. Is a relic of one of the big impacts.
Arachnophyllum striatum
Picasso Effect
Calcium still present. This was a survivor fossil, far away enough to not be just melted into a blob or evaporated.
Reflective banding on this impact nodule with fossil impressions on outside and whole fossil inside. Lake Logan, TN (Howell, TN Impact Structure.) This is the start of a fossils agate just lackes more power. May 1, 2023.
The outside and inside fossils
Tektite, resonate, agate. Very rare. A resonate agate typically will band a harmonic that best fits the overall structure, many times this includes a bounce back from the edges. April 29, 2023
Roland Johnson
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Found Bellata New South Wales
Now this one is a classic. See the pure triangle wave define itself in the center by mass where the shock made signal concentrates. It then goes outward conforming to the shape of the overall structure. A classic resonance example shock made agate. May12, 2023.
The Agate Dude
"The Aztec" A Cherished Paint Lake Superior Agate In My Personal Collection!
Many spoke higher power reflections off outside edge. The tube edge endpoints are a double reflection having bounced off the edge and bounced again from the center.
May 13, 2023
Agate Collectors Worldwide
Matt Stankus · ·
Beautiful iris agate
Shock agate arrowhead. Rare. May 26, 2023.
Keepers Of The Past - Arrowheads & Artifacts
What did I find tonight. Field central Indiana Heavily beveled.
Isolation/Rejection spheres. You may recognize this pattern in impact spheres and shock agates. It was another material applied to the hot glass which floats on the surface and expands. June 27, s 2023.
Matt Horne Pottery.
· One of my favourite pieces from the kiln. This one really shines in the sun
So here it is again in a small agate. Bubbles compressing to form the geometric type Septarian. Sept. 4, 2023.
Collecting Lake Superior Agates
Column basalt compression bubbles, a high concentration of impact spheres from a large earth penetrating impact. NW Africa. Sept. 4, 2023.
Hassan Yamani
Basaltic columns, central plateau Morocco
Shock agate disturbance in the resonate force. The nodule is resonating as a body making the shock agate. It also has concurrent crossing shock lines imprinting as a breaking up force. Rare. Nov. 13, 2023.
Karynn Campbell · ·
This one really has me stumped! It sort of looks like petrified wood, but I can't figure out the hard black lines going opposite of the wood grain patterns. Does anyone KNOW?
Location: SW MT, Yellowstone River
Shock agate with attenuation antenna response. This physics is a reversal of what you saw as a kid with those TV aerials on peoples roofs. In this case the forms are branching as a response to the waveform which is making it. While this is the same physics of all resonate made bodies this type is fractal which is known to be one of the best antenna designs. Rose quartz. Dec. 27, 2023.
Ray Forage
Found this on the Silver Coast, Leiria, Portugal. Can anyone help to identify it please. Credit Niamh Dempsey.
Shock agate from Queensland, Australia. The high energy bounce back has pulled in the concave outer edges. Jan. 15, 2024.
Robert Ovidiu Diosteanu
Travellin on the east coast of Australia, i stumbled upon this rock up in Qld.
Just found this group could someone explain how this might have formed and how would it be possible to form layers with such a pattern, almost hexagonal got multiple angles if necessary
Cheers
Propagating a conformal triangle pattern but not a triangle wave form. It is a whole body resonance of high power. Feb. 11, 2024.
Agate Collectors Worldwide
Yunika Albaria · ·
Agate south Sumatra...
A 6000-km-long Neo-Tethyan arc system with coherent magmatic flare-ups and lulls in South Asia
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Magmatic arcs typically exhibit non-steady-state evolution with episodic flare-ups and lulls, yet the main drivers remain contentious. Situated in the southwest margin of Southeast Asia, Sumatra records a long-lived magmatic arc that is still poorly constrained in age and tempo. Detrital zircon data from Sumatra delineate major arc magmatic pulses...
Zircon is a scarce mineral on most rocky planets of the Solar System1. However, traces of zircon have been found in Martian meteorites dating to when the planet first formed1. Some of the oldest samples of the mineral ever discovered were found in the meteorite Northwest Africa 75331. Shocked zircons with deformation twins are only found at impact craters on Earth2. They occur at all of Earth’s largest asteroid strikes2.
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This large earth accretion impact has trace zircon and is still resolving this earth crust breaking impact with earthquakes and volcanoes. Feb. 11, 2024.
Fractal agate in transition. Is a cusp layer in the first banding shell. Also, a circle in the banding ring this is a jump down to a lower state. Feb. 28, 2024.
Crossing shock and resonance isolation. March 11, 2024.
Leon Herold · ·
Mosaic Lake Superior Agate. Face polished 1.5 inch
Shock resonate oolites agate. March 11, 2024.
Kyran Leeker
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This is a close up of a union road agate that I found and polished.
Splatter agate likely from the Thrace Crater. March 15, 2024.
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Mustafa Kemal Öztürk · ·
Sunflower agate from Black Sea, Turkey
Shock agate harmonic doubling - Strong resonance will gather around the center of mass. This mass has a break in it so the cross over caused a second gathering point. The triangles in lower left are a triangle wave off the break structure. April 24, 2024.
Tim McConnell specimen.
Triangle wave form build with resonate excess at this moment wile the migration was still occurring. May 16, 2024.
Richard Nass
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Credit Richard Larson with this fantastic Agate
mpact hexagon, rare. These are caused by a back harmonic. The features of this specimen have some shock agate back harmonics. June 15, 2024.
Amanda Klotz
Obviously some sort of fossil but my boyfriend's parents house is getting demolished and I was picking up rocks that he collected over the years over the past 25 years or 50 years or something like that I can't remember how long they lived here but found in I guess Southeast Kansas I have no idea where he found it tbh
Based on Mars and the Moon the average US state has 2 to 4 thousand surface impact craters of a mile diameter or greater. With geology mapping it is easier to find the larger and not surface craters than the smaller topo type. While I have identified many impactites from eastern Kansas and made many crater maps, I made this one today as it is interesting. It shows the Uranium shadow crater of a very large impact in SE Kansas. Mineral shadow craters like soil maps often have drift, hence the term shadow craters.
Impact sphere/shock agate - Rare. The core has materials common to the meteor/bolide, iron, sulfur, copper. The silica based exterior could have been from the impact surface or the meteor/bolide. The core metals are not good for making agates although it is attempting to do so. Assuming the weird fractal branching tubular structure is part of the rock and not an organic attachment, it is a blast made fractal form. June 16, 2024.
Bill Mckinzie · ·
Not sure what I cut open today. It was almost perfectly round.
Impact made shock white and shock agate. The banding progression from right to left is the direction of the shock wave. It was very powerful and imprinted as well as making the shock agate. This is a high-grade ornamental stone it looks like it has been quarried. Magnified detail of the shock agate section attached. July 5, 2024.
Helena Wilcox · ·
The whitest rocks I've ever seen.
If you are familiar with aerodynamics or fluidized flow you can see the shape of elongated drops in the post high energy wave progression. Magnification attached. July 5, 2024.
Shock agate, radial eyelash effect, appears to have been hit by plasma inclusion, botryoidal bubbling. While some shock agates show high resonate energy this one is strictly heat and motion. July 22, 2024.
Sherry Norbeck · ·
Found a really cool one yesterday along the Yellowstone near Glendive!! I believe it’s a Jasper with some quartz in there. Maybe a little agate too? Not sure. It can almost stand up on its base so I am going to sand it a little and see if I can get that to happen. I’d really like some input on that there little fossil though if anyone can help! Almost looks like an anemone…..or something!! It’s one of my best and most interesting ones!!
Aug. 8, 2024. Amethyst and energy type. Picture credit (naturalstonecreation.com) Natural and synthetic amethyst are not the same. First look at this example picture in situ form. You have shock agate structures, coning chevrons, and iron veins with particle inclusions. Brazil twinning occurs in natural gemstones (Wiki) as well as differences in spectra characteristics (linked article). This difference is due to the type of ionization of origin. With synthetic stones they are irradiated. With natural the impact plasma phase makes the ionization required. Shock is evident in the natural stones as they will have Brazil Twinning and as you can see in nature shock agate resonate wave forms as well as the triangle wave. These are higher level impact wave energies than your typical sine wave "shatter cones." Journals
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Ionization. Example: Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO
2) and owes its violet color to irradiation, impurities of iron (Fe3+
) and in some cases other transition metals, and the presence of other trace elements, which result in complex crystal lattice substitutions.[2][3][4] The irradiation causes the iron Fe3+
ions that replace Si in the lattice to lose an electron and form a [FeO
4]0 color center. (from Wiki).
Einstein received his Nobel Prize for the concept of electron loss due to light packet absorption, i.e. quantum physics. My grandfather a barber explained you cannot put a straight razor under an ultraviolet sterilizer light because the razor will lose its temper. The same concept.
Amethyst can fade in tone if overexposed to light sources and can be artificially darkened with adequate irradiation. (Wiki) So we have up and down electron math for amethyst.
We also know that synthetic amethyst differs from natural which proves a different but similar origin energy. Impact plasma formation is the likely energy. This high heat and pressure form a new ionizing environment as well as explaining the nano trace minerals.
Note the lateral striations in the above picture. That is an impact waveform origin signature as an earth pressure would not be able to produce this without contact which would be impossible in this type presentation. Also note the potpourri matrix including the iron necessary. The presence of iron is impact origin. The MVT theory has never proved a source. Synthetic diamond production shows that the fastest way to make them is with high heat, pressure and resonance. That is a description of impact. Aug. 9, 2024. picture from geologyin.com
Impactite, impact made geometric, element breakdown and resonate symmetrical forms. Rare to find one like this. First let me say that magnified you can see the granular particle construction which appears as all those little dots. The granular particles are a reform of the impact material as pulverized. These particles combine to make little shapes of like combining with like. Upper left section has squiggles of also like combining at a larger scale. The disk is a type of shock agate in what was the limestone strata where the impact occurred. Why is it a disk? Melt drops are often formed with these high energy events. A disk is a two-dimensional fast form whereby it happened too fast to form a sphere. The arcs along the edge are resonate rebounds where the shock resonance emanated from the center and bounces back which brings us to the three points. The high shock resonance will cook from the inside out concentrating on the center of mass. This is the way your microwave oven cooks. The calcite and trace iron have been isolated by the high energy heat and resonance and are compressed by the returning resonance to make the stable geometric figure which is a mathematical resolving of the energy to balance the whole. The squashed out side shows this compression. While I like the other answers presented why do I propose a different thesis? First, I have many examples of impactite from NE Kansas and have identified the craters. Second as a forensic phenomenologist I like a thesis that can coherently explain all the observations regarding the specimen. Sept. 5, 2024.
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Todd Craig Moore · ·
Can anyone help identify this? And I’ve already heard all the flintstone Mercedes jokes I can stand. Thanks. Found in NE Kansas.
Interesting agate. It is making rounded cones. Sept 9, 2024.
Gay Watson · ·
Found this today whilst collecting some jasper on a dry creek in Tom Price. Am I right in thinking that something like agate slid into the jasper whilst forming
It was the only rock with a band in it like this.
Shock jasper. The banding is resonating wave imprinting. The minerals will attenuate at different frequencies thereby separating. The balls are an interim state not having come apart from the energy i.e. proto jasper. You can see a nice video on mineral attenuation on Youtube title is:
Innovative Mineral Processing With Microwave Technology | CanMicro Technology
Sept. 12, 2024.
Lucie Prosper · ·
The stone in the middle- every time I find one it reminds me of a blueberry loaf or dessert it’s very purple looking and always has neat designs. Found in the Canadian northern Rockies at the river. What is it does anyone know?
Beginners Luck, a linear fractal geode/agate. It also has impact sphere impalement on the surface. Fast formed crystals did not have time to make their habit. Sept. 18, 2024.
Mj Jordan · ·
That was my first find . Thank you for taking us. It was a blast. Stayed till 2am
Linear fractal flow and impact spheres. Sept. 18, 2024.
Impactite, shock agate. The yoke section is the isolation of iron by the high energy resonance. This kind of wave energy is like your microwave oven and cooks from the inside center of mass outward. It also reflects against the shell, and you see some parabolas. The fractal is an electric charge that built up and flashed like lightning toward the center from the iron ring just inside the shell. The grey is cryptocrystalline flint. Oct. 3, 2024.
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I found this while out walking this morning it looks a lot like a fossilised egg? Would be great to see what people think and what animal it may have been…?
Shock agate. As the resonance refined the minerals by their attenuation frequencies then there was so much energy remaining to make a resonate balance by mass. This ended up a little shifted to the right side as it looks like the mass red is shifted left. The reflective against the wall harmonic is a solution to energy dissipation. Oct. 5, 2024.
Ian Bevington
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I polished a piece of the Berber agate I have been cutting into and this is freaking rad! Freaking rad! I have the opposite cut and it has the same pattern.
Geodes are impact nodules. Some expand making the center hollow to form slower crystals some do not. You find them as part of an impact strewn field. The high variability suggest the sedimentary theory is not correct. Silica is very unlikely to precipitate as it is inert chemically. Also the hollow core is not a precipitate form. Oct. 6, 2024.
Taylor Pfanstiel
Slowly setting up for birding man festival in Ohio!! Come visit. It’s like burning man but local haha.
Proto shock agate. An impact nodule, shard, clast is subject to a high energy resonance from the shock waves. It causes the rock to vibrate and cooks it from the inside out like your microwave oven. This energy resonates the minerals and separates them by attenuation frequency. Magnified you can see tiny specks that are from the impacting bolide. You can also see the granular forms which are called "constellationing." Oct. 6, 2024.
Leah Gillen · ·
What causes this ring? Found in area with fossils.
Here we have the opposite power resonance. It is so high not only has it resonated the core but the surface as well. Oct. 6, 2024.
José Costa
— in Ericeira, Portugal.
Directional type shock agate. The shock is coming from the bottom hence the lines from the high power waves. It settles into the mass of the specimen and radiates the energy from the central core of mass. The hollow is too much energy making the expansion melt as it has made the volume smaller from all that energy compression. Oct. 15, 2024.
Mike Vecchies
Just cut this beauty my daughter found at the last gravel pit trip
Microscopic simultaneous impalements. Tiny blast bits at hypersonic speed are part of an impact explosion. It appears these small bits exploded outward upon impact into the matrix. What is so great about this example is the simultaneous nature of these hits. This is the column basalt/boxwork compression cells. While only some boxwork examples exhibit this as they are usually from a type 1 grid bricking, you sometimes see this with them too, also with resonate partitioning. Oct. 23, 2024. Image for sale at: micROCKScopica
Scott Johnson specimen, and I must say thank you for finding and posting this specimen on Lake Superior Oddball Agates, fb. Yes this is an oddball type. It is an energy made agate rather than a resonance type. That is not to say that charge does not have resonance it is just to identify its major source of making these figures in the rock. What follows below is close ups of these interesting effects. Oct. 25, 2024.
Lets start with the easy stuff. Carnelian and citrine melts. These two gemstones are related by the degree of iron. You can see the citrine halos in connection with the iron inclusions. The carnelian is denser and is a melt where the iron has been fully mixed into the matrix. Why is that important? Mixing and rejections is a phenomenon you see often with impactites. It is a measure of energy the rock has received. Very high energy is needed to make a quartz iron fully mixed composite. You can think of it as what you see in the paint store when they add the color to the base and have to shake it quite a bit to blend the color and base. The oxidation of the iron will shift the citrine to carnelian as well. While we think of iron as red and red does not make yellow or orange the oxidation does. You can also notice a little indigo in this picture and while you cannot see it well from this view the rock also contains cobalt. Flame and isolation. In this view you can also see the tapering points coming from bottom to top as a flame type figure. That is something of a directions condition. While this is primarily an energy made specimen, resonance was also present but as stated before charge and resonance are similar and connect. Oct. 25, 2024.
Fragment dots and pieces. This is a common element of explosion which is what makes impactites. In this view you can see a little of the cobalt blue which has melted already as cobalt melts at a lower temperature than iron. Oct. 25, 2024.
Tiny impalement hole craters. Impact makes plasma which is expelled like the fragments at high speeds and impales the impactites. It will also make linear cavitation fractal shaped tunneling. Oct. 25, 2024.
Now we are going to get into just how interesting and rare this specimen is. First on the left side you can see some really good points coming off the trunk. This branching is the same thing you see with lighting. Energy moves or expresses its form based on brackets of power or charge. The trunk will branch as this becomes unstable so as to force change or shift to these leads. A steady power would just continue with a trunk. In the upper right you can see pi/pagoda figures forming this is a very rare phenomena and I have a page just for that at: 2H: Pi/Pagoda wave | mysite
I like this view because it shows the semiconductor nature of this charged specimen. Take for example the breakdown of the iron in the left front area. It has charge that has exceeded the iron as a conductor and is moving into the quartz fractaling and fringing diagonally to the upper right. Oct. 25, 2024.
Right hand rule branching. Significant energy will twist. You can even see this in mountains made as an upsplash from big meteor hits as a shock resonate form. As stated above the energy types are related physics. As a charged effect shown here the perpendicular nature is a branching effect of the right hand rule. This would be impact bricking type 17. see page: 4R: Shock Lines & Impact Bricking | mysite
The specimen is also showing meta bricking from the right hand rule charged branching effect. You can see this in the left side iron breaking down to shift to the silica simi conductor carrying dispersal of energy. The rope like blobs on the right side are energy noise so unstable it is not able to make a distinct form.
So where does the energy come from? There are two types of charge made in an impact chaos explosion storm. The first is particle generated by the swirling bits of pulverized matter causing a static electricity generator. For example the ash particles in a volcano plume make lighting at many thousand time the rate of normal atmosphere lightning generation. The second type is ionization. The high heat and pressure of impact ionize elements which is shown dispersed in the impactite as this shift cools. Oct. 25, 2024.
Shock agate, carnelian and citrine. I like the fine banding progression to melt. That is a resonate effect. It was fast formed with high power. Oct. 28, 2024.
Remco Elisha · ·
Rockhounding the Rhine river near Wesel in Germany.
And the impact crater that made this specimen above. This karst map is really good for showing cratering. Karst are the result of impact whereby the impact rubble makes voids. These voids can show up in the crater walls as well as under the crater as craters make a hemisphere of rubble. Oct. 28, 2024. Image is from:
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Interesting impact geometric a split triangle harmonic. Notice how the hypotenuse is bending conformally. Resonate harmonics are how shock agates are made. You can often see triangles in them. Attached is a map showing the Rochester/Lake Onterio Impact Structure. Fonda NY is in the breakthrough box where the blast kept pushing. Oval impact structures are not as rare as you might think. Nov. 3 2024.
Jenni Blakeman
Y’all, I know it’s not New England but wanted to share what I found in Fonda, NY, at Herkimer Mountain today!
Shock agate, with banding fuzz. Shock agates are made by high impact shock resonate waves. The minerals attenuate at different frequencies, hence banding. Fuzz banding is caused by too much or too little power to establish a crisp frequency, or the frequency is not pure enough i.e. noise. Since it was able to melt the rock, I am going with off frequency high power. Nov. 28, 2024.
Found by a friend in the Black Hills. Similar to Teepee Canyon or Dryhead but still different. This is a big rock. 23lbs and over a foot in diameter. Cryptocrystalline. I haven't seen on like this before. Opinions?
Shock agate, all agates are shock agates, all that sedimentary slow form theory is bogus. The amethyst section is melting toward the center and was able to cool slowly enough to form crystals. The lower section has banding along the edge but disappears toward the top as the mineral melting abundance increases. The arcs along the edge are resonate bounce back like pond ripples hitting the shore. Charge and resonance - Both physics can produce shock agate changes in combination or separately. You can see fractal constructs in association with the resonate features. Dec. 2, 2024.
Proto shock agate with wave attenuation imprinting. Is not able to find one powerful harmonic. You are seeing noise. Yes, a snail could have cleaned parts of it but what made those arcs? They are indigenous to the rock. Dec. 8, 2024.
Kiana Zay Mitch
I found this super cool rock on this hike we went to and i was wondering what makes swirls on rocks like this!?
Here we go with a little agate chaos. You see earth impact is an explosion chaos. with distance the harmonics can overtake each other and assemble to a pure high power wave which resonates the typical agate. I like this one because it shows chaos including just melt which is a long wavelength heat phenomena not particularly a resonance but with enough power does melt. Jan. 23, 2025.
Lake Superior Oddball Agates
A sweet sagenite with a little ventifact.
Lake Superior Shock Agates. I like this collection because it shows the high variability of the impact process. Jan. 25, 2025.
Chris Wagner updated the group cover photo in Lake Superior Oddball Agates.
That is a shock agate. They are made from high energy shock waves which acts as a resonator of different minerals. The iron is broadcasting its attenuation at a different frequency hence the banding. 3 Feb. 2025.
Lake Superior Oddball Agates
Anyone seen an agate like this? Never have.
Shock made off harmonic noise agate. I do like modern art and this is just beautiful in its off beat way. Get it "off beat." Feb. 5. 2025.
Chris Dobal
What on earth is this thing? The spot is pale pink with a sort of burgundy border. I dipped it in muriatic acid to clean but it started fizzing like crazy so I immediately neutralized and rinsed it well, I don’t think I caused any damage (I only dunked it for a few seconds). Found on the beach in Northern California.
Why does this specimen interest me? It has a corner circle. I have seen this before in the Howell Impact Structure. I call them traffic circles. At certain frequencies touching harmonics will cause this circle, a type of shock circle. Feb. 5, 2025.
Michael Leonardo Marczewski
Up to this moment I still haven’t found an agate. Can I safely say I found one now? Southeast MI. And the bigger one underneath, is that an agate or banded chert? Thanks in advance.
Finding the artifacts is incidental. The flint a crypto crystalline metamorphic was an artifact of the impact explosion, a shock metamorphic. This is a good example of resonate partitioning. It is a type of shock agate form. Shock and the rock are variables here. A more powerful shock would have set up a whole-body resonance like is more typical of small shock agates. This however is large, and the shock wave separated into three smaller resonance patterns. You of course are in or near an earth impact. Feb. 9, 2025.
Lia Fahimadina Dmk
Alright, so I found this back in 2018-2019 (the stone in the ground). I have showed 2 people, my father and 9yo son. It was found in Roland, AR in a spot I find artifacts regularly( 1 spearhead picture included that was found within 30yds of the subject matter). I would like to get your input on this/thoughts on rather you believe it is an artifact or not. All feedback is welcome. Thanks.
Thank you everyone for your feedback. Now that I have gotten a good sampling (which is much appreciated), I am adding a few pictures of just a few more items, of many, found at surface level close by. I thought it would be interesting to see opinions based on minimal context.
This on the other hand is not resonate partitioning; it is fossilized wood. That core gives it away besides the banding types. Now is this a shock made fast fossil? Kinda looks like it I mean it is so quickly preserved. Feb. 9, 2025.
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To really consider a specimen you have to magnify it, big screen 4k. Section 1 is black iron oxide Fe3O4 with silica as this is a chert specimen. Why is the black iron oxide in the center? Because this is a shock agate impactite and the black iron oxide is the densest so the high power of shock resonance is banding by density. Shock resonance is like your microwave oven and collects around the center of mass cooking from the inside out. 2 red iron oxide. 3 rare crossing resonate harmonic contrary to the whole body harmonic. 4 gassing holes, this was very hot. While based on Mars the average US state has around 2,000 surface impact craters of a mile diameter or greater any impactite found in middle KY I always suggest the Mammoth Crater which takes up most of the middle state. March 24, 2025.
Rockhounds of Central Kentucky
Hey friends! I am new to the group and to Rockhounding. My Dad and I just started the hobby and these are rocks from our first few trips. I was wondering if anyone would help me identify a few of these as we have no prior knowledge about rocks.
We are mostly try to find agates but have been picking up anything that's different looking.
They are all raw but we have a tumbler we haven't used yet because we don't want to tumble if we should cut them instead. Any suggestions if we should polish them instead? Thank you
Alright good, this specimen is also a shock agate developing the center of mass attenuation, but the harmonic energy ran out at that stage. I like this specimen because it is simple and illustrates the shock agate formation principle. March 14, 2025. Kaylee McFarland specimen.
Melt flow also an impactite and was very hot. Validates the evaporation holes your specimens have but the in between state, rare. March 24, 2025. Kaylee McFarland specimen.
Impalement agate. March 30, 2025.
Rockhounds of Central Kentucky
Found in bourbon co. What’s this??
This is a proto agate with resonate shock circles in partition. It is a stage in the high energy shock melt process. April 1, 2025.
Caleb Mondragoon
Studied at Lewis-Clark State College
Lives in Kamiah, Idaho
Very interesting, off center resonance. Off center and the center of mass here are what is going on. April 5, 2025.
Gemstone Gurus
Incredible Coyamito agate pseudomorph From Mexico
Harmonic Confusion? Can you have a physics form in confusion? Yes, it is referred to as noise. Not the Phil Specter "Wall of Sound" type of noise, just noise. I study these in particular as they bridge theories. If you turn up the power the specimen melts into a more typical agate, noise or not. As you can see the specimen contained many materials which are producing different attenuations of the high power harmonics. Of particular note are the circle inclusions on the left side. May 2, 2025.
SRL Gemstone
I am speechless. I bow before the art of nature.
Pseudomorph Agate Slice
Banding and bubbles. Banding is simple like waves a reproduction by attenuation but the bubbles inside these harmonic figures are a new form. Form Quanta Theory states that energy will change forms according to power state. This is what you see when fractal lightning changes to ball lightning. May 2, 2025.
Bubble type melt but not circles yet and not organized into sub forms as shown in the previous example. This is also an interim state of melt. May 2, 2025.
Agate Dad
Oolitic ironstone jasper
Agate surface. Agates are highly metamorphic however the surface has been exposed to the shock chaos storm. May 3, 2025.
Shalane Pruno
I need some advice on these please So I'm pretty good at spotting agates most of the time by the outside appearance. But these ones I'm not sure about. They both have one small area of what looks like agate banding? (Found in Minnesota)...could these possibly be something cool on the inside?
Resonate partitioning. Like the surface agate shown above this is a non whole body resonate effect. The resonate partitioning is accomplished via the separate attenuation characteristics of the mineral materials. May 13, 2025.
Kody Meyer specimen
I like this agate it is a transition specimen. You learn so much from these interim examples. This is a high energy shock resonance melt bubbling and gassing. That is why the resonate banding is in such a small band around the edges. The core has melted which blends rather than bands. Given enough energy the minerals will be melted together rather than attenuate bands. May 14, 2025.
Kyran Leeker
This is a union road agate that I found. Thanks Chris Scudder for polishing!
This is interesting. You can see the progression to the most simple form of the wave harmonics in this specimen. It is reduced to a triangle impact geometric in the center where the resonance was greatest. It is an off center harmonic. As you can see the melt is on the left which is the direction of the energy. High shock resonate energy will melt the rock which is the stage beyond attenuation banding. May 17, 2025.
Richard Nass
Perhaps this is my most natural colorful Agate . Its from Malawi , Africa, Its just under 2 inches
Malawi (/məˈlɑːwi/; lit. 'flames' in Chichewa and Chitumbuka),[9] officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over 118,484 km2 (45,747 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 21,240,689 (as of 2024).[10] Lilongwe is its capital and largest city, while the next three largest cities are Blantyre, Mzuzu, and Zomba, the former capital.
The triple crater system of Malawi. While the smaller craters occurred later which is typical as the universe sorts by size over time due the probability of larger collisions the oval wide side type 2 subduction is rare. The impacting meteor/bolide was oblong and struck from the east. May 17, 2025.
Working out the dual center. Look how the high energy resonance isolated two centers of mass and worked that out to a summation center before the edge of the body. While this is something you see in the universe with collisions of galaxies etc. this is just shock resonance harmonic resolving. June 5, 2025.
Cody Payne
Found a rock today in the creek with an eye, Calhoun, KY.
Confusing resonance or resonate confusion? This energy was working out banding and stopped. You see these interim examples often as they are not typical and make interesting post. The next phase would have been a much higer state of melt making a more typical agate. June 5, 2025.
Rock Hounder
Whaaaaaaaaaa....?!?!? Bright orange banded agate
Shock agate with breccia, rare. June 17, 2025.
Derrick Eastman
Where are my expert options @? Exact location? Sorry... Roundabout? Texas Hill Country.
Central radial crystal geode impactite. You cand fast form diamonds with resonance, heat and pressure. That is what happened here in quartz. The little iron specks are from the impacting meteor/bolide. This is a cusp of geode and agate. June 21, 2025.
Middle Tennessee Rock Hounds
Glad to be here look what I found. Im told its very rare
Now here we have a resonate Amethyst ring geode. June 21, 2025.
Exceptional Amethyst and Crystal Geode Specimen at 1stDibs
More shock resonate energy will make shock agate type melt on a geode further transforming it. June 21, 2025.
Julie Vazquez Berlioz photo and specimen.
Transition overlays are recoloring a previous banding. 6 July 2025.
Collecting Lake Superior Agates
Mosaic water level Lake Superior agate.
The stone has been worked and partially polished to expose the mosaic layer.
Popcorn agate variant. The fractals are a charged effect from the impact energy.
Both calcium and quartz are conductive. 22 July 2025.
David Luz specimen.
Shock Agate, citrine, impact geometric, this is the expansion of harmonic chevron/triangle wave forms. gemstone quality. 22 July 2025.
Rock Identification Group
Can anyone help Id? Any input would be appreciated! Thank you! Found in creek in Lincoln ca
Impact made explosion breccia agate. The only thing harmonic about it is the central point of outward expansion. 22 July 2025. Indonesia.
Shock agate with triangle waveforms. This is an overprint on impact quartz breccia. This took a lot of energy. 27 August 2025.
Gordon Tyzack
Found this... looks like 3 pyramids
Charged impact nodule, oblate sphere. Shock circles are resonate made such as a shock agate, however the leads are a charged energy. You will notice they go both ways from the circle like lightning sprites. As distance increases this process breaks up. Lightning sprites are a positive and negative charge phenomenon. Why do impactites have charged physics? The same reason a nuclear blast has an EMP besides the swirling particles generating charge. Is also a plasma ionization going on in this level of explosion. 3 September 2025.
Ty Rigsby
Any idea what this could be?
Impact nodule, conglomerate shock agate with directionality. First let me say this is a rare type. It also has a fizz mosaic surface as it was very hot. So let me discuss shock agates. Resonance, harmonics, shock waves make banding by wavelength in this case the banding has also produced laminating. The pebble inclusions were local and mixed in the hot impact splatter or they would be melted, many impact events are multistage. 16 Sept. 2025.
Marg Lonsdale
A friend found this at Adam's Lake, BC, Canada.
Quartz, indigo, chalcedony, impact sphere/geode variant. Why geode variant? We think of geodes as round with a hollow crystal structure. The spheres inside this specimen represent a crystal structure just as the body of this specimen. In the background you can see other impact spheres. 25 Sept. 2025.
Chris Sims ·
Blue nodule from Red Top in Central Washington. Hard to find them like this! #rockhound #agate #redtop #washington #rocks #blue #nodule