Shock Lines - Like so many phenomena found in craters the various forms of lines mean something. From ultra thin to dashed, turns at 90 degrees is just too strange to ignore.
Another fine line shown below from Lake Logan, TN SW crater almost too small to see. Also has an iron oxide layer that is somewhat strata linear.
Specimens below are from the Pulaski, TN quarry. They are likely from the Middle TN basin forming impact edge which was under the next impact I call the Howell/Petersburg impact which are both towns on it's landing edge so it has no real center since it was a traveling explosion and oval. I have a theory that forms like the ones below are part of the shock chaos explosion which has many directional energy burst at chaotic sequence collisions. It was close to a hundred mile diameter crater. The Highland Rims are the crater walls.
The inclusion bodies would also be part of the shock chaos storm.
The very fine black outline between the change in color and then going to the right and getting shaky before disappearing is part of an effect border then it goes to breaking up. Fossil left intact but those crystal inclusions are a moderate shock level 15 to 30 GPa.
Let's figure the specimen below was in a full liquid state of shock. The dotted lines are drops, an indication of surface tension between dissimilar materials.
As explained in Traces of Catastrophe the lines shown below are filled fractures. The thin lines shown above are clearly not fracture planes as the rock cleaves along other locations.
The small specimen below is a quarried and crushed gravel. It is metamorphic which is a higher quality of grave but goes largely un sorted by quarry operators when they hit a section of it. It was of course noticed and picked up because of the unusual nature of it like so many specimens posted as "what is it?" It is a step function harmonic wave form which was what also made it metamorphic. The shock particle storm also left trace iron of the meteor itself. You can read more about the shock chaos storm at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/kinetic-impact-explosion-crater
You can read more about the step function wave form at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/shatter-cones-impact-crater
The line crossing the white band is a fast form as it transects multiple metamorphic rock. It is a singular inclusion and appears to have direction also. It's borders are firm and could have arrived at high speed.
What a specimen. Ball constellationing, iron black obsidian, thin lines and a yen and yang inclusion. From Izmir, Turkey found in 2018.
Here it is again making lines and breaking them. Found at river called Dzirula. Location Georgia, Shrosha ( I don't mean the state of America, its little country west of Black sea)
Shock break as a cross plane distortion. Impact explosion chaos causes multi micro second changes in shock direction and it's metamorphic energy wave. The insert line was shifted a micro second later while the whole mass was in shock plasma.
Making lines and breaking lines. This strata at Pleasant mountain, Bridgeton, Maine is metamorphic, shows a particle storm composition and crossing vector lines. A volcanic event would not have so many changes in direction and metamorphic feature change. Also is a blue tinged area in upper right associated with nano mineralization.
Feathering shock lines. This is a high shock in between condition before they melt away into bands or blended condition.
Of lines and borders - So the conventional geology theory would say this is a tectonic effect. Sure is a lot going on in such a small area. The energy required is also chaotic more in keeping with an explosion. Study the directions of pressures, melting and varied effects, how would that occur from rocks just pushing against one another? Type 5, shift impact bricking. July 9, 2024.
Found in central Newfoundland Labrador, Canada. I like this specimen because it shows the lines in breakup forming dots.
Shock chaos storm and directionality. You can have many directions at once in a shock chaos storm. https://www.hillbillyu.com/kinetic-impact-explosion-crater
This rare find was posted on Facebook Middle TN Rockhounds and Pebble Pups. It is from Decaturville, TN the county seat and population 867, Hew Haw Salute! It is unique. An impactite from the Basin Buster, Lewis county, or the ancient craters on the TN river I call 7, 8 & 9. ( see the map on the right) It is also a "geofact" a rock that looks like an artifact. I use a system to study and will place this in my page called shock lines. That does not mean it is like the others I have on the page just a way of cataloging. Do the groves represent a substance that has dissolved over a great amount of time? It is a fact of impactite prospecting that you will see different effects on internal and exposed surfaces. The back side shown below I believe to be "finding harmonics" a search for resonance in a directed shock wave. If I had to narrow it down more it seems to be in an off harmonic of the shatter cone "coning" wave a variant of the triangle wave form, sawtooth etc.
Carrying fractal tree and iterative bleeding - See how the energy is coming from right to left. These grooves are the "lighting like" shock energy in a dissipating grounding form and then branching off the main truck between trees, iterative bleeding.
Now this one is interesting. It is from the Thrace Crater west of Istanbul. It has lines as striations. They are in a shock chaos sequence so the specimen was close in to the blast and there is some melt to confirm that. Unlike a low energy striated shatter cone the many shock harmonics are crossing and the resonance is sorting as you can see in the cobalt lines. A rare transition specimen.
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Notice how the iron is finding the crystal borders. The large crystals indicate a slow formation however it does have the small iron particles present inside the crystals too.
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Impact composite - The iron is from a large meteor impact called a bolide. The composite nature of it's composition is from the rubble chaos of a kinetic force of this magnitude. The specimen's most interesting feature however is the linear crystal habit around resonate mass points, the eyelash effect.
Harmonic Shock Lines, a Gathering Harmonic - Harmonic Gathering is a consolidating wave form that is collecting same type particles by resonance.
Shown above are resonate banding lines. The shock wave harmonic affects the black iron oxide Fe3O4 strongly. It also displays the "eyelash" effect. The harmonic mathematically departs on a 90 degree building harmonic. This is occurring on both sides and is not a directional indicator.
Shown above is a specimen from a West Tennessee collector. Again the banding wave is collecting in the black iron oxide. This time is shows direction from top to bottom.
Now here it is out of phase and in transition. Is not the pure harmonic for perpendicular branching.
Macro planar deformation features are shown on the other side. but again you can see it is in an in between harmonic shift.
Another great specimen collected by Ali Karadeniz, of Thrace, Turkey. This has false strata banding developing. It is a type of banding or step wave. The particles are in development of lines.
This is a new linear phenomena. Step wave pyramid energy dome fractal. It is somewhat septarian and branches off the diagonal line indicating an iterative harmonic. The presence of fractals indicates this is a fast formed energy dispersal. Specimen is from Lawrenceburg, TN one radius distance west of crater wall. This is actually a fractal type that is why it decreases as a triangle form.
This is a step wave harmonic with a break up into fractal. It is from a large impact explosion that made shock waves and the tiny particles. It also blasted the iron into it but that is common it is the wave form signature that is so interesting here.
عبدالصماد بوزكارن وداد الأمة specimen-large step harmonic. this is from a big earth impact. the reason you know that is the uniform distance between waves. a shock wave will overtake the materials ability to carry and make a concentration pause which hardens the material extra hard there. a shock wave will decrease in distance as it weakens. not much of that here.
this is the crater where I live #3 the frankewing, tn crater. it is the ultimate expression of harmonic shock lines. 10 miles or 16 kilometers apart without compression in wave. see how small the compression pattern is at the top #10 the wells creek crater.
Line Fractal Combination - You see this as a branching harmonic. Attenuation effect.
I am particularly intrigued by the lines. Calcite flow lines.
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The off harmonic line. High shock metamorphic but this is a type of resonance. The unstable wave. Shock waves travel and organize, but this was too close. It has high shock constellationing as well. You can see little circle forms. Specimen collected by: Ashley B. Vercher
Banding Contrails - While I have seen specimens with leading edge sharp and trailing edge fade, this specimen has the harmonic lateral wave fading away, as in this is the edge of the harmonic. Specimen found by Randy Johnson of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
More shock dots. Western Wayne County TN at Highway 64 road cut. This is a phenomena from the Middle TN Basin Buster impact that also pushed up the Highland Rims as crater walls.
Impact specimen from the Middle TN Basin Buster Crater found north Wayne County, TN. These lines are an energy signature, a tree fractal lightning type. Impact makes a high density of turbulent particles which creates a charged environment.
Shock Fingerprints, a Linear Plasma Resonate Wave with consistent bandwidth. This would be indicative of a large earth impact. Kunarr river in Lalpora, Afghanistan, photo by: Hamid Hasan
Shock lines in Appalachian Silurian Strata in KY. Appalachian Silurian AAHwy Ky p SEPM Strata
Non Liesegang lines in sandstone at Johnson Top in SW Franklin Couunty, TN an impact bolder ejecta from Howell, TN Impact thrown some 50 miles.
Close up of left edge of boulder showing where the line starts. A directionality from left to right off another line with iron inclusions.
Linear Fractal Branching. From Elora, TN quarry. March 6, 2024.
Rayce Reed Rock from east OK. Sandstone with trace iron impact segment. These are usually found on the edge of the dispersal crater ejecta. It is a sequence form with the core being more shock complex and the surface having a directional flow with fractal branching.
These are fossilized rippel marks, not a meteorite.
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Well we agree it is not a meteorite, that is a start. Impactites are a byproduct of a large earth impact. They may or may not contain material from the large meteor called a bolide. Shock waves are produced by this impact and can melt whatever surface they encounter as it is about a million times stronger than your microwave oven. What is missing from the idea of these forms being petrified shores of some beach is a mechanism. How would a beach sand formation become instantly hardened? A sand formation is very fragile. As I retired from the world's largest research laboratory let me share that no proposals are approved without a mechanism. What is the science that transforms a fragile sand dune into a rock?
Also the Wiki geology would not explain the subsurface energy which is cross directional to the surface. Nor is Wiki Geology aware that these fractal forms are a directional energy signature.
Impactite resonate type with circles and lines. The energy is starting to degrade the left circle. The lines are the harmonic wavelength which was a shift to lateral waves over the circle harmonic. Found in landscape pebbles by Nicholas Smead Sept 5, 2022.
Harmonic bricking. A text would tell you this is sedimentary but why so geometric? And why iron vertical? Shock made particle generated electromagnetic wave imprints. Good specimen. Energy and the iron. Can you see the iron being organized into this non conductive material? It is a type of conductive printing.
Rayce Reed
Nov. 28, 2022
Some more rocks to share that I found this past week. Some have what looks like shrinkage others flattened out. One has lines running through it I am assuming some type of quartz. Thanks for letting me share.
Shock line gradient - Change in such a small space. While this does illustrate Liesegang banding it is a shock made wavelength imprinting. Metamorphic not sedimentary. It also shows a breakdown of imprinting. This is due to the substance. Imprinting requires a stable state to imprint and this area of the specimen was in a melt state.
Josh Blawas, Lake Supior Agate, Dec. 10, 2022
Lives in Minocqua, Wisconsin
Dec. 10, 2022
Impactite, Splatterform, Thin Plane Insertion, Shock Lines, Bricking, Iron/Silica. So let's start the forensics. First you want to save the pictures you are examining and magnify them on a big screen 4k monitor. In this detail you can see the fractal breakup of the thin lines. This is an energy effect. Is similar to lightning but a high energy material flow found in impactites. It is not a creeping deposit into cracks as is taught. These inserts are conductors, contrary to the creeping into cracks they can crack the matrix with their energy which you will see in specimens from time to time. Next the same conductive material connects as a splatter with these energy inserts. Cross inserts is a phenomenon of high energy. It will brick making a parallel energy insertion at right angles. It is too high to be contained in a single dimension. This impactite is from a large earth impact as a small one could not produce this much energy.
Omar Obaid
Can you help me Identifying this rock type.. heavy like 2 kg handful size , fair magnetic effect , that golden colour is brown in reality I think its Iron oxide.
Big crater effect, shock bricking. I see this here in the Howell, TN crater and yes it appears to be man-made but will be found in the most obscure places. Here in the Howell crater, I first observed it in small creeks entering the Elk River not a place anyone ever built a wall. BTW in your location it is surrounded by impact ash calcium bentonite. This ash was once limestone but burnt and blasted outward. The physics of impact bricking goes like this. It is a sub type of "false strata." The lateral component is the shock wavelength imprinting in the resident strata or compressing the ash into shale. As a wave harmonic stalls at its crest that breaks the strata as an imprint. The vertical component of bricking is the materials inability to absorb this energy and it breaks to the weak lateral lines which is why these breaks are not a continuing linear to the next lateral line and are unevenly spaced. Your second picture also has impalement holes as explosion is a progressive process. The red surface is the plasma iron which falls as a mist and welds to surfaces, these are often the last effect in the forensic physics analysis of your location. Attached in the USGS gravity map for WY with the big Medicine Bow two craters the upper and smaller lower. Either one could have made your location but the high volume of ash indicates the larger, but this could be a two step process with the ash from the bigger impact and the compression and bricking from a later impact. Aug. 29, 2023.
Geology
Opinions on this formation I came across in Southern Wyoming, USA, This was near Seminoe Reservoir and the Seminoe Mountains.
Double grid impact bricking a signature of explosion like planar deformation. Also some plasma impalements. Aug. 30, 2023.
Peita Collard
Some amazing rock formations on Phillip Is ( Millowl ) Victoria, Australia.
Impact bricking and impalements. Aug. 30, 2023. Peita Collard photography.
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Impact bricking Howell, TN Impact Structure. Aug. 31, 2023.
Vertical shockwaves imprinting. Coning left side. Sept. 7, 2023.
Geology
Jordan Naomi · ·
Can anyone tell me anything about how these interesting/ imposing rocks formed? Found cycling through the mountains in Torres de Piedra, Peru.
Sudbury crater impactite. Charged crater effects - Volcanic particles will make lightning at 10,000 times the normal air effects. Impact particles however are more energized and also conductive. Manganese often found in combination with iron is conductive and conductivity increases with temperature. ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031891461900799 ) In this specimen it has a thin filament which is an expression of the ion repulsion. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/molecule/Paulirep.html#:~:text=An%20ionic%20bond%20may%20be%20modeled%20in%20terms,limits%20the%20closeness%20of%20approach%20of%20the%20ions. Electrodeposition of particles - Impactites flying through the impact turbulent particle storm are grounding objects and the nano pulverized conductive particles are charged. The impactite itself is charged due to autogenetic electrification. Why is it a straight line? Physics favors the simplest geometric forms. Sept. 12, 2023.
Geology
Mathew Graham · · ·
Anyone have any idea what’s going on here? Found in Georgian Bay, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
Shock lines in with connecting communication. Type 2 Impact Bricking rev.Sept. 28, 2023. 13 August 2025.
Colin Dagnall · ·
Can anyone tell me about this rock? Are those leaf veins running through it? They are embedded in the deeper layers too.
Polymorphism, pseudo morphism, twinning, planar deformation features, resonate alignment - First the provenance of where found is an overlapping of more than one crater but one is enough. The attached picture shows one that broke the Earth's Crust, called a "Crusta Confractus (CC)." The joke in physics is the assumption of the simplest case. Explosion physics is chaos and multiple direction shock is normal. That explains the offset directions as you can see this when a water wave encounters a barrier and bounces back on the original wave. Another physics that is poorly understood is that polymorphism, pseudo morphism, twinning and resonate alignment are all the same impact physics phenomenon. They are just differing expressions of a common cause with resonate alignment being the overarching principle. See all the dots in your specimen. That is more important than is ever considered. These small particles are from the impact particle storm. If they are all the same size that is called the "common particle" which has been sorted with distance. It is also the tons of micro meteorites that fall by the ton each day on Earth. The particles align by attenuation to the shock resonance imprinting the wave lengths. As the particle dispersal in chaotic some lengths of the wave imprint go unprinted. I hope you don't mind if I add your specimen to my encyclopedia of impact phenomenon. Signal Peak AZ Crater. Oct. 17, 2023.
Field of view= 2 mm. Alamo breccia from Tempiute Mtn. Cleat-like fracture pattern. Any ideas?
Impact bricking or fossil, The core looks fosil. Wavelength imprinting with excess energy breaking through to next imprint. Oct. 27, 2023.
Lindsey Hurless · ·
My 6 year old found this leaving an appointment today, she always seems to spot the odd ones. Is it even a rock?
Shock lines with grid pattern from the "Big MO" Crater. Multiple shock waves make a grid imprint. Big MO is an angled impact between other big craters. Oct. 28, 2023.
What is this and why does it have these lines in it? They are somewhat raised with small grooves in between. Other large rock formations in the area have somewhat similar patterns in sections as well as water erosion. Southeast Missouri,United States
Surface resonate partitioning. See the coning patterning in the background. That is an up splash coning. Equal squares is a remaining vibration effecting the partitioning as compressed boxwork type impact geometrics. Just another day of forensic physics in the Mad Scientist, Genius, Polymath, Idiot Savont, Society (MSGPISS). Nov. 14, 2023.
Brien Foerster
Mysterious band of holes in Peru
Impact bricking Chesapeake Bay Impact - There are four types of impact bricking. The first is overlapping wave imprints. The second is stress release between wave layers. I take this to be the latter. Strata age? Super position is applicable to excavation in a crater but not to the impact made rock which in this case is only about 30 mya. Impact bricking is a sub set of impact geometrics. It is also a type of shock line. Dec. 16, 2023.
Cody Haines · ·
Hi all. Home sick today, I’m looking through old photos of rocks and geological discoveries I’ve made here. This formation is here in Woodstock, Maryland in the US on a road just off of my home. What might this formation be? There’s a lot of granite, schist (especially containing mica), gneiss, and quartz around here along a creek called Brice Run that runs into the Patapsco river . It’s a very unique spot. Pictures of this spot lie within and just next to Brice Run, and look nothing like the other granite and aforementioned mineral and rock formations just up the road, so I’m not sure what they are. Feldspar was my nearest guess (but I’m really stumped) as I know there are some old Feldspar mines and mineshafts not too far away. Thanks in advance!
Impact ash and falling mist iron impact bricking type 1 Sidney NSW Australia. Dec. 25, 2023.
Called Tessellated Pavement this shock wave imprinting overlapping is part of the impact progression late stage but a big impact. The earth is reverberating back the reflected shock waves with these organized patterns. So why does the iron migrate to the edges? This was very hot and the iron is separated by density to the edges as a simi flow. It is also weathered removing the most exposed raised sections which also tends to remove the top leaving the iron flow into the lower portions somewhat exaggerated.
Phillip Turner
Love tessellated pavements. This one Sydney, NSW.
SE Australia Big 3 Craters. Dec. 25, 2023.
Charged Impact Bricking, Type 3. Type 1 is crossing shock grid. Type 2 is stress cracks between wave lines. Type 3 is charged. In this case copper is conducting the charge congruent with the type 2 bricking. Dec. 27, 2023.
Geoff Sprawson · ·
About 10 feet across.
Maine, USA.
Jared Smith
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So this was found in Indiana 50 yards from a lake. Think the star came from farm equipment?
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Type 1 impact grid boxwork. This harmonic spray, likely iron is from an earth impact. This organized spray is set up in wavelengths and an earth impact makes many harmonics as the explosion is not uniform with many points of explosion and similar shock waves all at once. I have another specimen like yours on my encyclopedia of impact phenomena. June 22, 2024.
Eneida Hartman
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My daughter found this rock in the riverbed in Ohio. Looks like a type of shale or sandstone. There is a lot of that here. But weirdly there is a geometric pattern on it that looks like the Star of David. I’m pretty sure it’s not a piece of tile. It is hard like rock.
Impact layer Septarian high heat mosaic bricking over compressed ash slate. I often refer to specimens like this as the "shock floor." Bricking and geometric compression - Radiant cells break apart as a energy induced heat transfer as this likely started as botryoidal bubbles on the surface but became squeezed by the neighboring expansion. This is the same mechanism that makes "column basalt." Type 1 and 2 "impact bricking." - Type one bricking is overlapping shock wave imprinting making a grid. Type 2 is energy transfer cracks between parallel separation. Your specimen is more rare and I will have to add it to my impact phenomena encyclopedia as a type 4 Septarian Mosiac Bricking. Hope you don't mind me adding your picture and credit. So why not mud made rock? Yes you can see many Septarian forms in nature it is a true universal figure form. So how would it be petrified? To make a pot in a kiln you need a couple thousand degrees. We have a missing mechanism which is impact which makes the heat and pressure to transform these impact relics into stone. Jan. 6, 2024.
Geology Identification
Deon Viljoen · ·
Good day all. Do anyone have an idea about what type of rock this could be?
Fossil Panama Tree. The simple shock/impact made geometric shapes overlap fossils. Jan. 10, 2024.
One of the fossilized wood samples discovered on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. One of the fossilized wood samples discovered on Barro Colorado Island in Panama.
23 million-year-old petrified mangrove forest discovered hiding in plain sight in Panama
Sascha Pare
Tue, January 9, 2024
Angela Fleury Winter - Dendritic bricking, rare. Shock made lines or false strata with high energy leakage off those lines as fractals and fractal branching. Chert quartz and iron. The iron is small and from the impacting meteor/bolide. An excellent find. Jan. 12, 2024.
Paul Galioni
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Need some help here!! -- Area is Sedona, Arizona, USA, Location is Red Rock Canyon. QUESTION - 1) what MAY have caused the apparent rippling on the face of this slab, 2) Original orientation of the 'ripples', and 3) forces which may have lead to its apparent isolation? -- (Please, just those who really think they might know, thanks) -- -- Cite is Arizona Jones (photographer, and in image) -- His post: "This enormous rippled sandstone slab stands completely upright and reaches roughly 17 feet [ed.: ~5.2m]! This was an exciting find we made today in one of Sedona's many red rock canyons." -- THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE!!!!
Sheet wave phenomena - Not that this type of wave cannot exist three dimensionally, but this example is a surface ripple which was also knocked off in the same impact. From the western four state crater.
So what is the pressure required to make sandstone? .2GPa at 450 degrees F.
Only impact shock is going to be that high to freeze this surface form.
110 MPa16,000 psiPressure at bottom of Mariana Trench, about 11 km below ocean surface (1100 bar)[76]
100 to 300 MPa15,000 to 44,000 psiPressure inside reactor for the synthesis of high-pressure polyethylene (HPPE)[77]
400 MPa58,000 psiChamber pressure of late 1910s .50 Browning machine gun discharge
Jan. 21, 2024.
PICASSO JASPER - THIS IS NOT CROSSING SHOCK LINES THIS IS CHARGED BEHAVIOR A WILD CRAZY NOISE OF CONDUCTIVE WAVE FORMS. NOTICE THE WAY THE LINES CAN BEND SHAPE CONFORMAL. FEB. 12, 2024.
LISA FOX
I've had this strange stone since I was little. Can you tell me anything about it?
Crater wall folding, lateral fold. Crater walls have a lot of turbulent settling. This was simi plastic when molded hence the breaks and bricking. The iron is from the impacting bolide/meteor. Petit Jean State park NW Arkansas. March 10, 2024.
Diamonds in Arkansas
This rock formation is located at the site of Arkansas' oldest state park, Petit Jean. It is at the North rim Cedar Creek canyon.
Bricking Gradient, road cut SW Cullman County, AL. March 25, 2024.
Very rare impact bricking variant. These impact shock cut cubic shapes were expelled from the crater's lowest bedrock and landed in a bricking pattern. Type 1 crossing grid shock cut like overlapping waves in a pond. This is one of those cases where people assume a man-made structure but is a physics made structure. Gum Springs, AL. March 31, 2024.
Or did the bricking occur as a cut in place, same location. March 31, 2024.
Impact Bricking. April 1, 2024.
There are many huge stones around the Vottovaara Mountain, and some of them are undoubtedly of natural origin. They may have been formed due to a powerful earthquake for example, but some of the stones are just too perfect.
Mysterious Megaliths In Siberia
There are several super megaliths in Siberia. They were found and photographed for the first time in 2014 by Georgy Sidorov, researcher and a proponent of unconventional theories regarding humanity’s past, on his expedition to Siberian Mountains.
There are no known earlier photographs of these megalithic stones, located in the vicinity of the Shoria Mountain in Southern Siberia.
Megaliths Of Mount Pidan
Located in Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, Pidan is one of the famous mountains in Russia’s Far East.
There is a large number of megaliths around the mountain, but experts have not examined them. Just like the Vottovarra Mountain in Karelia, this enigmatic site attracts neopagans who consider the mountain sacred.
Rhythmic lines in impact iron detritus, Oak Ridge area TN. May 7, 2024.
Tennessee Rock-N-Fossil Hounds (+Rock Trading)
Feral Frank · ·
Another rock slide in my fossil hunting area revealed some nice stuff. This was a much larger collapse than the one from a few months ago so I got a good look at what's inside the mountain
Impact bricking with the blast iron in an overlapping grid in sandstone. The slab was deposited at this place in the cratering process. May 18, 2024.
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Krasnodar Krai, Russia
"Also known as Parus Rock, is a natural sandstone monolith of late Cretaceous age located on the shore of the Black Sea. It resembles the outline of a ship's sail, hence its name. The thickness of the rock is just over 1 meter, the height is more than 25 meters, and the length is over 20 meters. The rock is more than three-quarters out in the sea perpendicular to the shore. At the height of about 2.5 meters there is a hole in Sail
Impact geometric axis with iron flow in 3 quadrants. While the crossing grid is impact wavelength iron thin plane insertion the unoccupied quadrant is force directional with a higher resolving force pushing which is a local summation force. May 20, 2024. Cullman, AL strata along the 8 mile creek sandstone and iron. Cullman AL Crater.
Never mind the freaky cave formation, check out the impact bricking on left side. Lake Cave Mt. St. Helens. June 3, 2024.
Marie Conkel
Very, very cool mold.
Charged effect, look at that rib structure in the veins, but why do they branch perpendicular? But is not perpendicular it is a Y type branch, very balance splitting behavior. June 3, 2024.
Looks like it even wanted to sheer perpendicular. It has the classic small to large crystal progression. June 3, 2024.
Geology of North Carolina
Gary Isaac · ·
At first glance I thought I was looking at a turtle. What is it? Found location is Winston Salem on bank of Salem Creek
Michigan Shock Agate, what is so interesting about it is the breakup to bricking at the fringes. The harmonic in its more powerful form is able to hold the lines. June 16, 2024.
Michigan Rockhounds
Steve Maczko · ·
Found this in rock beds along our house,
Oblate impact sphere with type 2 bricking in the center, small arrow. This shock drop was in a high lateral shock imprinting position when formed causing the shock lines which imprint the wavelengths. However it was also very hot and the specimen was also melting. There are tiny impact spheres in the upper center. Silica, nano iron and perhaps other impact minerals. June 22, 2024.
Michigan Rockhounds
Alyssa Hugo · ·
Found in Lake Michigan, south of Charlevoix.
Well that is rare. Impact made physics. The lateral lines are the shock wavelengths. The impalements are just part of the overall blast pieces. It is the connecting patterns a shock bricking variant that are interesting. If you magnify them you can see the fractal construction of them. That means this is energy communicating between the lateral imprints but not direct as type 2 bricking often does. June 27, 2024.
Justin Powell · ·
My friend found this in georgia looks like maybe fossil of skin but not sure he wants to know anyone take guess or just a rock
Fused impact breccia shard. June 29, 2024.
Claire Chaffin
Another Beauty! It’s soo pretty. Found in Nevada. Has like a design pattern on both sides.
Fractal Boxwork, type 3 of impact bricking. A high energy signature charged phenomena as you can see from the fractal stag horn effect. It has many tiny impact spheres in the matrix. So, what is a stag horn effect? A high energy trunk like lighting will more or less keep the same diameter. As the trunk loses energy it will branch or taper to a point. This tapering to a point is the stag horn effect. Where did the charge come from? The highest energy earth events are impact accretion the fundamental source of the earth's heat btw. Even a small 10-mile crater represents millions of megatons of energy. Besides impact being a generator with pulverized particles swirling everywhere; millions of megatons of energy will make a plasma cloud like you see with atomic bombs. While it is believed ionization is a single step result of the atomic bombs, the subsequent ion change of elements is implied in the physics like happened in the tragic Castle Bravo test. You had an unpredicted up charged blast and the know fallout producing ionization danger. These known explosions are orders of magnitude smaller than earth impacts. The central impact "Big Montana" is over a 500 million megatons of energy. Around five times the power of the famous Chicxulub impact. So the iron was charged from two sources the static generator and the ion charge. The highest instability will discharge quickly. The iron is from the meteor/bolide and can even have an initial radioactivity. Big Montana is a type 2 subduction crater coming in from the east. Western Montana has the uranium. Geology map of Big Montana attached.
So, why the geometric right angles in this type of boxwork? This type of alignment is forced by the right-hand rule of electricity. While the iron was more misaligned as an impact spray it is forced into right angles by the high charge. July 4, 2024.
Rockhounding
We saw this rock in Glacier National Park in Lake McDonald while we were hiking.
Bullet meets glass, a type 1 & 2 impact bricking phenomenon. Here we see a high radial content with the crossing grid. July 6, 2024.
In this example we have communication between breaks along the rim complexity. July 6, 2024.
Very high velocity with lateral and vertical all type 1 crossing grid shock. July 6, 2024.
Impact crater type 1 crossing shock grid with shift grid on east side. A shift grid would be a type 5 bricking. July 6, 2024.
Type 3 charged impact bricking, cobalt, iron and silica, all conductors. This high energy has isolated the minerals and is conducting and imprinting the energy release. Besides the swirling particles in a shock chaos storm the energy is so high as to produce plasma ionizing shifts which release energy to go back to stable. July 9, 2024.
Danielle Brierley-Chavez · ·
Can anyone help my identify this rock? Found on the river bank in Western Washington.
Shock agate with type 3 energized bricking lead and type 5 shift in structure. This is both a resonate and energy made form. July 9, 2024.
Helena Wilcox specimen.
Type 6, Deformation Bricking shown in upper left. Oblique impacts. This WW2 German Panther Tank has been hit by 3 round of 76 mm HE which killed the crew. Of course you can see the push up type cratering but beyond that you can see it broke the crust just like earth impact does causing the raft tectonics and rings of earthquakes and volcanos. Raft/Plate tectonics is a shadow theory like Plato's cave, a partial understanding. While this real world example shows what impact does it does not illustrate the mile per second impact energy common to objects from space. More energy equals more damage. These rounds was traveling at .6 miles per second. There are two basic speed profiles for earth impact. The first is capture speeds of around 15 miles per second. Cosmic speeds are around 30 miles per second. Capture speeds are slower because they are in orbit in our solar system. The Howell, TN Impact was likely at cosmic speed based on the debris field and it is also a low angle impact making a fan shape crater which is very rare. July 10, 2024.
Impact breccia, type 7 conformal bricking. Some of the shards were made square by crossing shock waves a type 1 bricking effect and type 19 charged effect. July 13, 2024.
fossil information & identification
Giordano Segneri · ·
Hi everyone, a friend found this rock in the middle east desert (jordan-saudi). Any idea of what this could be? Fossils have been found in the area
Tiger' eye - When lines are in confusion. See the very top linear dots not quite come together. That is the section with the least energy being away from the center of mass. Harmonics gather around the center of mass. The dots are small iron particles from the impacting bolide/meteor. The Blue fractal happened just micro moments later even shifting the banding. Between the banding is the harmonic noise, not any specific wave form a jumble of them. Aug. 3, 2024.
Crystal Haven ·
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Tiger eye
Geological confusion: from Wiki
Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre. As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.[1][2]
Other forms of tiger's eye
Tiger iron is an altered rock composed chiefly of tiger's eye, red jasper and black hematite. The undulating, contrasting bands of colour and lustre make for an attractive motif and it is mainly used for jewellery-making and ornamentation. Tiger iron is a popular ornamental material used in a variety of applications, from beads to knife hilts.
Tiger iron is mined primarily in South Africa and Western Australia. Tiger's eye is composed chiefly of silicon dioxide (SiO
2) and is coloured mainly by iron oxide. The specific gravity ranges from 2.64 to 2.71.[3] It is formed by the alteration of crocidolite.
The fibrous forms of riebeckite are known as crocidolite and are one of the six recognized types of asbestos. Crocidolite, variety of riebeckite, from Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa (Wiki)
So here goes the logic, Tiger's eye comes from Crocidolite just because they both have a linear grain, but Tiger's eye has no asbestos and is much harder. Aug. 3, 2024.
Type 1 impact bricking, a crossing grid of shock. Earth impact explosions are not point sources and many shock radial crossing occur. You can even see this in giant macro scale on the USGS magnetic anomaly map of WY (see arrows in attached picture). While all impacts are not identifiable magnetically you can see some of the easier to identify craters circled. Aug 9, 2024.
Al Johnson is at Medicine Bow National Forest.
· Laramie, WY ·
Can’t figure out this rock that seems to have been cut into four pieces, granite, SE Wyoming
Type 1 impact bricking, in space. This is the resultant crossing grid pattern from solar wind with bow waves. Aug. 10, 2024. Photo concept by: Savvas
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Impact Bricking, Type 8, The Square Wave. As a pulse it is going to be rare, however the filtered sine wave can appear as a pulse and in an impact storm filtering is going to occur. Aug. 13, 2024.
Impact Bricking Type 9, the square crystal, Dodecahedral calcite. One of the many polymorphs created in a high pressure impact environment. Aug. 16, 2024.
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Becky Wood · ·
Look what I found today!
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Carles Millan - http://www.mindat.org/photo-241250.html
Calcite Locality: Berry Materials Corp. Quarry (North Vernon Plant), North Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, USA Original description: Floater group of brown translucent to transparent calcite crystals with some breccia matrix attached. A classic of this Indiana locality. Note the uncommon rhombododecahedral habit, I believe {110} faces. It seems a garnet but I can swear it is not. Overall size: 70 mm x 40 mm x 35 mm. Major crystal size: 35 mm across. Ex Rick Russell collection.
Type 10 Impact Bricking, shock wave imprinting crossing energy fractal. Rare. Aug. 20, 2024.
Alabama Rockhounds & Beyond
Alana Nicole · ·
I found this in Macon County over the weekend.
Impact Bricking Typer 11, the crossing grid inclusions in three dimensions. Aug. 25, 2024.
Geo Lens
· Golden Rutile Quartz: Nature's intricate artwork.
Very rare impact nodule type from the Huntsville Crater. See attached 1. left side Fractal Coning Flow. 2. Fiber crystal crossing from coning point. 3. curious artifact of cutting as it is a double triangle point. 4. The central isolation of cobalt from shock resonance. The fiber crystal crossings are energy type constructions. This modifies the shredded matter theory, a type 2 shock line/fiber crystal. Aug. 28, 2024.
Alabama Rockhounds & Beyond
Donta Lattimore · ·
I found a few of these in Huntsville the middle looks a cobalt blue. My terrible cut actually helps point out a tiny agate pocket ( I believe). Their are also tiny gold flakes in the smaller darker circle.it seems very hard. Not much light passes through. Is it just chert? Any ideas? I have a few and would like to know what I have when someone asks what it is. Thanks guys
Impact Bricking type 12, Bricking Cone. Back side is impact breccia. The front side is an impact quartz splatter, it has a rare bricking cone with cross hatch from a crossing wave imprinting harmonic grid. See attached. Aug 28, 2024.
Rhonda Bernatonis · ·
Found this piece in the high desert in Oregon. I have no idea what it is?
Shock lines, imprinted wave form, also has one crossing wave imprint. The surface is residue from the impact explosion. Aug. 2, 2024.
Mitch Dolphin
anybody have some insight into these things? I’ve found several similar fragments but I’m ignorant as to what exactly it is or once was, thanks
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Howell, TN Meteor oh Yes! That would make sense 100% as these were found very close to the Wetumpka Impact Crater!
Impact Bricking Type 9, the square crystal, Dodecahedral calcite. One of the many polymorphs created in a high pressure impact environment?
This is a transition from a mosaic wrinkling surface to an organized grid pattern. Impact Bricking Type 13. Sept. 2, 2024.
Impact Bricking type 14, a type 2 in fossils. The lines are following the grain structure but the crossing cracks are a mosaic type crack between. So why impact? It is unlikely that anything besides impact or perhaps a volcanic pool would have this many minerals and be able to petrify quickly. Otherwise it would have rotted. Sept. 3, 2024.
Impact Bricking Type 15, Insert Bricking. The large plasmas hole was made before the insert. The insert is a type of Thin Plane Insertion. Sept 15, 2024.
Geomorphological Features
Red Permian sediments in Rode Fjord in King Christian, eastern Greenland, cut by dykes that intruded during the Paleocene, when the North Atlantic was opening up. (credit: L. Recker).
Impact Bricking Type 16, Micro Bricking. Besides the impact geometric hexagon you can see type 2 bricking crossing diagonally. Sept. 19, 2024.
MicROCKScopica
A lovely eclogite, partly retrogressed, from a forgotten locality.
Polychromatic polarized light
Type 1, Impact Bricking with the secondary shock imprint occurring in a delayed sequence. The overlapping delay grid makes the progressive offset. Sept. 20, 2024.
Geomorphological Features
The sedimentary layers in this large roadcut near Denver, CO. can be clearly recognized by the variation in color. These layers can be recognized as having been deformed because they have been tilted so they are dipping to the east (the left side of photo). This deformation was related to the uplift of the Rocky Mountains. (saved from University of Mount Union)
Type 2 Impact Bricking. Sept. 27, 2024.
No, these are not the ruins of Machu Picchu, but rather remnants on Mars captured by DLR's HRSC Mars camera in February 2024. These images highlight the Angustus Labyrinthus region located near Mars' south pole, displaying straight ridges on a high plateau that closely resemble ancient ruins from the Peruvian Andes. This formation was first noticed in 1972 by NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft. Researchers have informally referred to it as 'Inca city,' but the true origin of this Martian structure remains uncertain, with various geological processes being considered. What mysteries might these Martian ruins reveal about the history of the Red Planet, and how do they correlate with similar ancient sites on Earth? Untold Leaks, Facebook.
Impact geometric, impact bricking type 2 with conformal intrusion. Sept. 29, 2024. © Prof. Alan Cooper (University of Otago).
Barrel Calcite crystal fast form in Keokuk, Iowa geode. When magnified the barrel crystal has a bricking crystal construction habit. Oct. 2, 2024.
Midwest Geodes
Haley Eastman · ·
Found during Keokuk Geode Fest in the Fox River. Was wondering if anyone had an idea of what the crystal is?
The trace iron which is from the meteor/bolide itself fills the forming impressions to show the bricking construction which is conformal. Impact Bricking Type 9/13, the square crystal, Dodecahedral calcite. This crystal is resonate made with the shock lines showing the central gathering that slid the calcite into its most economical form in the environment of high heat and shock pressure. This resulted in a contraction of the central body into the crystal inside the geode presenting the space. Do geodes contain a trace atmosphere of the impact forming event? Oct. 2, 2024.
Impact bricking type 16, the cut brick cast off. This mix is a jumble of what was there and nodule/sphere sent out as an impactite. Meta metamorphic, an impactite made from another impact material. Oct. 3, 2024.
Geo Lens
Intriguing example of foliation in a metamorphic rock. Notice the distinct banding caused by pressure and heat.
Shock lines (false strata) high up on the north wall of the Wetumpka, AL Impact Crater. Oct. 14, 2024.
Vertical up blast columnar jointing at: Discovery Hill”, in the MISTASTIN IMPACT CRATER. Oct. 14, 2024. Picture by: Charles O’Dale
Type 17 impact bricking. 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. 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. Scott Johnson specimen.
Impact phenomena, tributary spring creek to Thompson Creek, Bankhead National Forest. Let's start with the area circled and marked as 1 on the picture. Sedimentary theory would suggest this stratum is cross bedding. Cross-bedding is a sedimentary structure of inclined layers that indicates flowing medium (water or wind) and bedforms (ripples, dunes, etc.). But how can it be that if it is a vertical coating? 2. Fossil burrow holes, erosion, I have no confidence in these theories. Worms are not that big and don't make serial holes. Erosion does not explain why it is harder or softer as holes in a series. Impact plasma cavitation can do this, and the area was full of examples. For that matter if you just move your eyes up from the number 3 you can see plasma indentation writ large, the famous thumbprint form you see on some meteorites. 3. shows how chaotic the crossing linear patterns are. It is a freeze frame of short distance non equilibrium. How would sedimentary lithification capture that? Nov. 13, 2024.
Chain dots, specimen from Moundville, AL. This small boulder also had a crinoid stem in poor fossil condition. Does that date it? No, as crinoids go back to the early Cambrian and the specimen was non distinctive. Chain dots are a fluidized feature I have seen before; however, it is rare. Chert/limestone boudin is interesting and contained in both sides of the boundary. Is this liquidized flow capture part of the Black Warrior Basin Impact Structure? I don't know that is why you do field work. Nov. 18, 2024.
Chain dots, chain fossils, sheet flow stripes and tiny impact sphere. Like many physics phenomenon fossils and physics can overlap. The crossing chain dots are not a chain fossil, but I have the advantage of seeing the chain dots in this same specimen and theses could pass for Halysites if you did not know more. Sheet flow Fe3O4 black is iron from the impacting bolide/meteor. It is well organized. Tiny red iron impact sphere in center. This was a powerful impact. Moundville, AL. Nov. 18, 2024.
stigmaria tree fossil, Perth, Scotland. Michael McDonald specimen. Nov. 18, 2024.
Impactite, impact geometric, type 1 crossing grid bricking with loss of impressions. These shock made hieroglyphics are physics based impressions. The lines are the imprinting of shock waves. The tapering towards the top is a reference to the angle of the shock waves directional source. It was a plasma when imprinted therefore some of the lines melt. It has a crinoid star cast on the back side therefore not pottery btw. Nov. 27, 2024.
Michigan Rockhounds
Thought I would post a picture of a rock that I found while in St Ignace. I have seen posts of people finding similar rocks there too.
Fast formed impact made strata. The horizontal lines are shock wave imprinting based on the frequency. The veins are crossing energy made explosion chaos. The circle is a vortex pocket. The most interesting feature is the harmonic noise imprinting shown at the bottom of the picture. That is the same thing you see on oscilloscopes as the aberration of the pure harmonic. Nov. 29, 2024
John Cottingham
Picture of a cliff on Mars by the Curiosity Lander. Is that circle a fossil?
Type 1 crossing grid impact bricking, writ large. The shaking of this imprinted shaped rubble blocks can shift them making the void between. This is the same process that makes caves. Lower Siberia. Nov. 30, 2024.
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Impact bricking type 18, Disorganized bricking. Fractal lateral flow veins in a banding construction. Impact breccia. While this presents as more of a slab than brick it will connect the layers making various size flat surfaces. Jan. 8, 2025.
A rock hammer posed next to an outcrop of the Conococheague Formation, an Appalachian bedrock unit of Cambrian age. Photo is from Circular 1360, Water Quality of Principal Aquifers of the United States, 1991-2010.
Impact nodule, type 1 sequential bricking the crossing grid pattern. This is shock wave imprinting from crossing directions as well as the inserting of the darker material. As you can see there was a delay with the second imprinting wave which has separated the first to produce an offset. Jan. 22, 2025.
Jackie French
Found this rock hunting on Ventura, California coast not sure what I have found?
Jackson Pollock with sub level of geometrics, lines, squares, grids, chevrons, spheres. Feb. 6, 2025.
Impact Bricking Type 19 energized right angle branching. You can see the energy electro machining etch at three places but truncates and tapers off the other legs. Surface has splatter. While this is the same phenomena as type 17, type 19 has only right angles whereas type 17 can have other angles. Feb. 10, 2025. Ashley Anzar specimen.
Type 19 Impact bricking pattern. Is rare to see such a great example of it. Let's work backwards to type 17 its nearest phenomena. In the type 17 picture above you can see that the iron and quartz have separated as a result of the tremendous energy. It however is less organized which is the result of too much energy. This specimen is a pure energy perpendicular branching. Feb 11, 2025.
The square wave harmonic as an energy signature as a summation as shown above. Unlike the type 1 crossing grid harmonic this is not reflection or two broadcast based. Also, binary shuddering can occur in the energy transmission of this much energy through the relative media conduction the high charge.
Type 19 as a type 2 energized analogy. Shock made cracks between imprinted wave false strata is a stress crack communication between the original parallel lines. Type 19 would be a pattern of parallel charged splatter on surface with the right angle bridges connecting these due to excess powerful charge. This however brief physics is in a high pressure, heat and electrical envelope. Feb. 11, 2025.
Type 16 Bricking the cut brick cast off. Proto boxwork sandstone iron a conformal resonate effect from impact shock which made it. Shock cooks from the inside out like your microwave oven. This physics concentrates around the center of mass. The iron separates because it resonates/attenuates are a different frequency. It would be a type 2 impactite as the iron came from the meteor and the sand was where it hit. 1 March 2025.
Gary Margelony
Just an interesting find. I thought it was cool. Georgia USA
Offset bricking type 2. March 29, 2025.
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Fossil Bricking type 20. While impact did not make the bricking pattern it did make the fossil. This much detail requires a sudden burial. April 19, 2025.
Yorkshire fossils ·
Who would have thought such a beautiful fossil could come from a monstrous cliff fall! This is a Lepidotes and is one of my favourite fossilised fish
Impact Bricking Type 21, Rope Bricking. Torque or twisting is an imparted energy from the impact blast and has made an over and under grid. While this is way too complex for an impact phenomena and implies a fossil type there is no known fossil type with this structure. It most resembles an ancient net. April 25, 2025.
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Impact Bricking Type 22, Bubble Bricking. Slate and iron specimen. Would need to be in excess of 4,000 degrees F. April 26, 2025.
Chas Edens · September 24, 2024 ·
My daughter found this in a creek on the border of western NC/VA. Any ideas what it is? Is it a mineral or something that melted down?
Impact Bricking Type 23, Grid Plasma. As you can see we have crossing impact shock but with plasma of uniform size. This presentation is a type of chain dot phenomenon. Chain dots are found in some few impact specimens but this is a plasma type. Iterative linear spheres is a type of fractal. While a trunk like the main lightning bolt is a common state as well as branching the physics is a form quanta. The energy can only take a certain form at its energy carrying condition. Spherical dots is the same as ball lightning. Ball lightning is the sputtering of the energy as it is no longer able to be a bolt/trunk. Also, you can see the nano iron from the meteor/bolide. April 28, 2025.
Karen Kemp
Sandstone formation
Croatia
Photo by Isiwal
Would you look at the size of this crater! From the outside arc it appears to be very big. April 28, 2025.
Smaller using the inside arc and you can see an even smaller crater inside that. April 28, 2025.
Type 24 Charged Impact Breccia Conglomerate Bricking. This is a variant off type 3 charged bricking and Impact Bricking Type 19 energized right angle branching along with Type 17 impact bricking. Right hand rule branching, and Impact breccia, type 7 conformal bricking. Is no twisting like in type 19 where twisting is a higher energy level. The small pebbles were present however the breccia is formed by the energy grid. A complex presentation of an impact made form. May 11, 2025.
Craig Larsen is with Jodi Larsen.
Anyone have an Idea what these may be Found in the Owyhees ?
Impact Bricking Type 25, Compressive Boxwork single, a compressive square grid vortex. An outstanding example of boxwork forming. As you can see it was a lava like melt. Impact geometrics are primarily wave energy expressions. Cooling contraction is pushing inward at different rates. May 14, 2025. Jim Kingdon specimen.
Impactite with iron splatter bits and chain dots. The iron comes from the meteor/bolide that hit earth and exploded. It contained iron and the high heat and pressure shredded the iron into bits, the thin strings and the ball type. It has fractal type edges on the thin bits in some cases. That comes from breaking or sudden stopping velocity inertia while a plasma. The same physics is the reason for the chain dots i.e. sudden stop of a liquid/plasma. Magnification of fractal edges attached. May 22, 2025.
Federica Iris Marzullo
Hellooo - I was walking on a hill in Switzerland and I have encountered this little guy here. Can you guys tell me "who" is "he"? The Reason I'm asking it's because there's a pattern and i am just curious! Thanks so much in advance
TY - JOUR
AU - Hu, Yuntao
AU - Pine, David
AU - Leal, L.
PY - 2000/03/01
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N2 - The effect of copolymers on the breakup and coalescence of polybutadiene (PB) drops in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is studied using a four-roll mill flow cell. Copolymers are produced at the interface by a reaction between functionalized homopolymers. They reduce the interfacial tension and thus enhance breakup; they also inhibit coalescence of drops. Under the conditions of our experiments, the latter effect is much more significant than the former. For example, the addition of copolymer sufficient to reduce the interfacial tension by only 3% relative to the bare interface value is found to reduce the critical capillary number Cac for coalescence by a factor of 6. The critical capillary number for coalescence in the absence of copolymer is also measured for the first time. It is found to scale with the drop radius a as Cac ∼ a−0.82±0.03 and with the viscosity ratio λ as Cac ∼ λ−0.41±0.06.
T1 - Drop deformation, breakup, and coalescence with compatibilizer
VL - 12
DO - 10.1063/1.870254
JO - Physics of Fluids
Chain dot variant, chain plasma blobs, a high velocity effect. May 25, 2025.
Jake Simmons
Central Missouri, not magnetic. What is it?
Conformal Resonance Not Melted Bending. See how the outside rectangle is going around the oval. It is a type of banding but only making bends that are simi plasma i.e. stiff. This explains some types of boxwork. Single rectangles and squares are formed this way. The arrow above shows the tensile strength failure due to the simi elasticity bending. The triple arrows show a second bending around a body in confluence with the larger proto box work body. Impact Bricking Type 25, Compressive Boxwork single. May 28, 2025.
Jim Kingdon specimen.
Impactite. Bricking strands and points. This was in a state of melt. The bricking is a type of mosaic from cooling as it became brittle, type 26. The points are stretching while in a melt state. The strands are a fiber crystal variant. The crossing grid is from the impact explosion chaos. May 31, 2025.
Stephanie Leeder
What is this? Found at Sandsend near whitby along with a lot of pyritised fossils... it's very heavy and as a golden sheen and kind of looks like a ball of string made into a rock !
The Whitby Impact Crater. May 31, 2025.
Impact nested boxwork iron sandstone, rare find with central conformal vesicle. So how is this made? Impact is a shock explosion making various waveforms. One of those waveforms is the triangle wave which you see as shatter cones. This is made from both the meteor iron and the sand surface where it hit. Top corner reflection banding. This is also rare in boxwork. The waves are reverberating back. This is the same process as with shock agates. Resonate structures. Resonate structures cook like your microwave oven from the inside outward. That is why it is banded and has the central void/vesicle. While these are found in a high percentage of craters one with the central voids and bounce back reflections is very rare as in it is the only one, I have ever seen. As such I need to add it to my encyclopedia of impact phenomenon. June 15, 2025.
Arkansas Rocks and Minerals
Found this 50 years ago east of Waldron. I keep intending to go back , there were lots more like this.
Big Rock in Big Horn Mountians. This is a type one grid brick even though quite large. So how large would an impact have to be to make such an object and toss it? June 16, 2025.
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The answer is about 200 miles diameter. It is an old crater having lost the western half to other geologic forces. June 16, 2025.
Impact bricking type 27, Radial Boxwork Bricking.
Impact made grounding/energy expression figure. A circle is the most efficient membrane type structure. The fractal arms are making grounding connections to the other arms. Earth impacts make energy charges from all that pulverized material swirling around to produce lightning type discharges much like volcanoes do. Additionally the superheated and super pressured environment causes ionization which can cause charged effects on the up or down ion change.
June 25, 2025.
Scott Broyles
Found a weird formation on a secluded lake bank in Iowa. About 6 feet in diameter. There were other smaller ones, all roughly circular as well. What is this?
Good specimen and pictures. This is an impact nodule. It is shock dolomite. The trace iron is from the meteor. It has plasma holes/thumbprints. It has refined the calcium out of the limestone which is still present as a surface trace. This calcium has formed a type 1 impact bricking Planar Deformation Feature (PDF). See magnification attached. 12 July 2025.
Boxwork square single. Impact iron, a resonate type. Notice how the thick side vesicular. That side wall was blocking the expansion which in turn set up a reverberation influencing the square shape. It is a type of resonate partitioning. You can see the wave ripples in the left side floor. 21 July 2025.
Fred Taylor Jr.
I found this 30+ years ago. Can you tell me what it is?
Boxwork singles a type of impactite. They are a shock wave made form from cojoined chevron/triangle waves. The iron is from the impacting meteor. 22 July 2025.
Matt Stoppard
Hi everyone, any information on these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
cubic alignment harmonic. Proto cubic impact made the high resonance is making a crystal (pyrite) type fast form. 22 July 2025.
Matt Stoppard
Any help identifying would appreciate
Another example of a proto cubic impact made fast form. 22 July 2025.
Teaya Logan Carrolton, Ohio.
Impactite, proto boxwork, sandstone and iron in stages (limonite etc.). Impact flow is from right to left. The central oval is a resonate effect like shatter cones. Shock is a wave form and will resonate a specimen from center outward. The banding is also a resonate effect. 28 July 2025.
David Dunn
This was found on a beach in Australia south east coast.
This is an interesting example of the box work progression. Notice how the bottom is not banded. The higher energy is concentrated at the top where it is coning and banding indicating a resonate type of energy besides the heat. 7 August 2025.
Acfm Holmes
Here is an iron concretion I saw that wss found in Australia.
Impact nodule variants but notice how dominate coning is represented. 7 August 2025.
Karsten Boche
Limonite >found in the Baltic Sea in northwestern Germany.
Impactite, carnelian, type 2 impact bricking with lower section forming harmonic. 10 August 2025.
What is this…an agate of some sort? Found on Crowley’s Ridge in Greene County.
Organizing geometrics or random? You have to admit a pentagon is not your random shape. We also have back to back triangles. 10 August 2025.
Mandy Roudebush
Anyone have any ideas what this might be? I believe this was collected in the Gorge south of Taos, but could be from Sylvan Lake, SD or Drumheller, AB. The “white” spots are shony, i believe mica inclusions. Pic is after stage one tumbling. It’s so cool, I hope it makes it through all the stages and polishes up well! Thanks in advance.
Impact metamorphic, fluidized banding, impalement, fiber crystals. No, it is not common. Since shock is a wave form impactites with banding are common. Impactites with fluidized banding are not. It is both a resonate and chemical physics. 14 August 2025.
Cheryl Pilkington
Found this one in American Fork Canyon(Man that water was cold!). The first picture is dry. The bands go all the way around it. I’m sure it is something common, but it caught my eye. Suggestions on what it is?
That is an impact iron nodule. It was liquid hence the shape. It was an expanding bubble it was so hot. It is iron from the impacting meteor/bolide. Why do they make corners? The high cooling rate causes an imperfect collapse as the material is not uniform. These boxwork types of impact geometrics are not the shockwave grid origins. It is a bubble type single. 16 August 2025.
Newbie here. Can anyone help identify this. This was found in northern MS
Impactite Boxwork Transition. You can really learn a lot from a cusp/transition specimen. It is easy to see the separate banding and melt folds but this one has the beginnings of geometric angles. On top you can see the energy charged perpendicular branching boxwork. 23 August 2025.
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Kim Garland ·August 20 at 5:16 PM ·
My Stallion*
Petrified Wood (maybe not )
from northern New South Wales Australia
Found in a dry creek
Impactite, mineral has pulled apart, was inserted as a shock explosion vein. Specimen has tiny impact impalements see attached. 30 August 2025.
Lena Mari
Hello,
What this could be, please?
Is this a fossil?
I found this on Felixstowe beach
Shift and melt in close proximity to shift not melt. Not raft tectonic this could only be impact tectonic. 4 September 2025.
Ed Gonzalez Chili
Type 2 impact bricking/boxwork. Iron and silica from the meteor and the surface (type 2 impactite). The type 2 are running stack. The running stack can be caused by either of two physical mechanisms. The first is stress cracking communication from one lateral to another. The second is charged communication from one lateral to another. This is the latter. Types of charge. Resonate charge is from the shock waves and these partitioned resonate cells push against each other to make the squares or other impact geometrics. This looks to be the case with your specimen. Electric type charges caused by all the static electricity associated with so many moving particles as with volcanic lightning can also make figures on the surface but resonate is the best fit for this specimen as it explains the shock agate like circles in the squares and triangles. You will notice the bending arc in the top triangle. This is called the pi/pagoda wave. 8 Sept. 2025.
Della M. Rayford
We have been trying to figure out what this rock is. Found near Whitefish Point, MI. Any ideas?
Where found Whitefish Township, Michigan.
Impact nodule/sphere with type 2 impact bricking. This is a Septarian charged effect. It is also somewhat mosaic. In the lower section you can see it has a conglomerate core. 14 Sept. 2025.
Muge
Okay, my first guess when I found this was that it’s some sort of human made ornamental concrete thing. But I thought I would post it in case any of you think it could be something else?
Now this is a good example one nodule is fractal cracks and the other is geometric side by side. As these are impact made nodules they were tossed a great distance and came from different areas of the impact explosion. 14 Sept. 2025.
Laura Hayes
These litter the beach on the south shore of Lake Erie in western NY. My favorite.
The Lake Erie Crater. Why would all craters be round? The objects that hit are not round. 14 Sept. 2025.
Here is a look at the Sudbury Canada Crater, not round. 14 Sept. 2025.
Line termination in a crystal. 21 Sept. 2025.
Norwegian Rockhounds
Found these in a stone from Rakkestad where there were a lot of muscovite crystals, fluorite, quartz and more. Looks like they grew inside/close to the muscovite. Does anyone have an idea what it might be?
Impact bricking type 28. Curvilinear mosaic cracking from high heat and cooling, quartzite or chert. Impact nodule. 21 Sept. 2025.
Jane Cannell Snell
Hello… newbie here… I wonder if anyone can tell me what could possibly have made these perfect triangle lines on this rock. Has me stumped.
Of the 28 types of impact bricking a square wave would be quite rare and is better illustrated by dots or chain craters since a square wave is a binary form, a pulse effect. Bricking that makes lines that intersect is a type 1 crossing grid what you see in a pond when a reflected or double wave is produced. The example above has a third component cutting shock wave making for these cubic bricks. 15 Oct. 2025.
David Buthman
Impact bricking, Vredefort Dome. Square wave interference pattern.
Uniformity - This kind of uniformity is not common. One of the rules for comparing physics forms and fossils is fossils will have more uniformity. This however is a physics form. With distance shock waves will overtake and establish a common harmonic which you are seeing here. Resonate attenuation will stratify the elements which is this case has separated the iron. 18 Oct. 2025.
ARiley Douglas ·
My grandfather found this rock in the Platt River in South Dakota. I promise it isn't painted it really came out of the river like this.
All the geologists we have taken it to for the past 50 or so years have wanted to cut it open but we really don't want to destroy it. I'll be able to post clearer pictures tomorrow but I figured I'd ask now while I was thinking about it.
Rivers frequently follow the outlines of old craters. 18 Oct. 2025.
On the gravity map you can see these old craters. 18 Oct. 2025.
West Virginia Waffle Rock has a surface grid of iron. It is a charged effect; you can tell that from the center lines. Also the grid goes from tight to more spaced as it goes from bottom to top. The tight section tends to make squares i.e. bricking. Then geometric shapes as it loses energy in this grounding dissipation with circles being an intermediate form. 19 Oct. 2025.
Type 29 Impact Bricking, Planetary Crater Squaring. Besides the maria the Moon's surface is almost 100 percent craters. Given the number of circles some will interact to form right angles. 20 Oct. 2025.
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I photographed almost a quarter million frames (313 GB) and 3 weeks of processing and stacking to create this phenomenal sharp moon picture.
Impact Bricking Type 30, Half Sphere Bricking. Picture shown in situ which is important because it shows that abrasion has an effect on the top. However, making a sphere requires holding two axis or being round to start with. As you can see the surrounding rocks are no rounder than any rock tumbler would produce. 21 Oct. 2025. 8 mile creek Cullman, AL.
Now here is the bottom showing three sides square. This impact nodule, sphere variant was made this way, an almost square bottom and round top. 21 Oct. 2025.
The Sage Wall, Jefferson County, Montana. The bricking phenomena in craters is mistaken for a man-made structure. The first time I saw it in the Howell, TN Impact Structure I was puzzled as the stone wall structures appeared in places that would not have any need to be walled like creek sides in the middle of nowhere while the actual stone walls on farms were not squared off and fitted so tightly. The bricking in the Howell Crater is not this big as you can see in the picture of it above. That indicates this bricking structure was from a larger impact. As the Howell Impact was around a 45 mile diameter crater we would be looking for a minimum of a 100-mile type crater here. And you can find such a crater on the USGS magnetic anomaly map of the United States, see below.
So here you can see the scatted remains of the magnetic signature of old and new impact craters. The smaller later ones are more distinct but not all that big and we are looking for big from the relational scale developed from the Howell, TN Crater. 21 Oct. 2025.
Location of the Sage Wall in Jefferson County, MT.
And here it is on the US Gravity Anomaly Map, Wowzah, the Big Idaho Crater goes right through Jefferson County, MT. This is the size of the impact we are looking for here. 21 Oct. 2025.
So why the offset Type 2 Impact Bricking? Well in fact it also makes polygons. But don't miss the plasma bubble burn holes that appear as a constant. 21 Oct. 2025.
And we have a third cutting wave component in the Z axis. Notice we do have a little iron showing up from the meteor blast. Also, a little impact hieroglyphics.
21 Oct. 2025.
So let's get busy explaining why this isn't simple Type 1 Grid Bricking. As you can see in the diagram above the complexity of reflecting waves is complex. This will also be intermittent in strength depending on location and distance from all these waves. The plasma bubbles also vary indicating the complex arrival of the impact blast effects. The above diagram is from:
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It is important to remember that the shock wave only cuts at the peak and trough of the wave where it dwells or concentrates. As you can see the shock waves will vary in intensity and width. Also keep in mind that waves are energy moving and they can overtake each other to form a stronger combined wave. All these processes are going on with the Sage Wall. 21 Oct. 2025.
Pipestone Wall, Whitehall, Montana, Jefferson County not far away from the Sage Wall. This section shows a simpler Type 1 crossing grid as the harmonic at this area was not so complex. 21 Oct. 2025. picture from: Pipestone Megacomplex
I mean look at the size of these impact spheres at the Pipestone Megacomplex. Impact spheres at the Howell Crater will fit in your hand. 21 Oct. 2025. picture from Pipestone Megacomplex
They also have the impact tempered ringing rocks here. (2) Julie Ryder - RINGING ROCKS IN THE PIPESTONE MEGACOMPLEX... | Facebook
youtube: Ringing Rocks / Bizarre "Singing" Boulders in Montana
Really, we have two very large craters intersecting in this area. Big Idaho came first and then Big Montana. Let's take a look at the fault map below. 22 Oct. 2025.
And here is the earthquake map made by Montana Technological University. See how well the two craters map their impact rubble. Earthquakes are impact tectonic outlines of the crater edges rubble sorting itself out over time by compression. 22 Oct. 2025.
Karst and caves are impact rubble voids. As you can see above Big Idaho is the dominant crater for rubble. 22 Oct. 2025.
And here we see again the crossing of two craters rubble. I like this map because it shows the caves sizes. It was made by Bigfork High School Cave Club. 22 Oct. 2025.
Another type 30 bricking example from same stream. Flat on bottom and one perpendicular flat side on an otherwise spherical shape. This sphere encountered a type 1 grid wave. 31 Oct. 2025.
Iron impactite, type 2 bricking shrinkage effect. 3 Nov. 2025
Dr. Kriss Begala
Found years ago
Shock floor with iron resonate imprinting. On the left side is a coning triangle wave harmonic. 5 Nov. 2025.
Terri Angiano we were digging in our garden and my son handed it to me and it was covered in soil he thought it was an old bit of pottery, I washed it and then I noticed the crystal things in the rock , I'm on the east coast of Ireland
Impact Bricking Type 31 Overlapping Imprinting. The shock line grid pattern is being imprinted from multiple shock grids. Impact being a kinetic chaos explosion has many levels of explosions and locations as the energy of impact is released. 5 Nov. 2025.
Found on a beach in Greece. Are the markings natural? There are 3 grooves on the sides which match a natural holding position.