[meteorite-list] wabar -glass vs. iron
answer me this: so, the wabar iron that you can buy was so big that it ALSO made it's own glss out of sand? Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] wabar -glass vs. iron
Yes, there are several Wabar craters. Mike --- mckinney trammell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: answer me this: so, the wabar iron that you can buy was so big that it ALSO made it's own glss out of sand? Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] wabar -glass vs. iron
so you can get iron culprit +glass victim? --- Michael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, there are several Wabar craters. Mike --- mckinney trammell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: answer me this: so, the wabar iron that you can buy was so big that it ALSO made it's own glss out of sand? Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] wabar -glass vs. iron
Wabar impact material is pretty interesting stuff. Very cool. http://www.meteorites.com.au/features/wabar.html Cheers, Jeff Original Message Subject: [meteorite-list] wabar -glass vs. iron From: mckinney trammell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, November 17, 2007 3:38 am To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com answer me this: so, the wabar iron that you can buy was so big that it ALSO made it's own glss out of sand? Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] wabar
looking for 10g wabar. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals
List, Mike is right. This story hasn't even a grain of truth. The Wabar craters never were anything like this description, and now, they are almost totally covered by sand. I just aquired a fine lot of Wabar impactites from someone who has visited the site within the last two months. There is virtually nothing to see. The new impactites were totally unexpected, but came from a small blow-out in an interdune corridor. (Check them out at http://tektitesource.com). I'm currently in the high Andes of Chile, so Wabar glass orders will have to wait until my return in early March. Be ready for some great new impactites--I'm headed to Argentina tomorrow to aquire a lot of Argentine Escoria. As far as I know, this will be the first batch to be offered on the market! Norm LehrmanMichael Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not true! Waber is 18 hours in the sand dunes, and is small craters,not larger than Meteor Crater.What crap is this? Anyone elaborate?Mike Farmer- Original Message - From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:47 PMSubject: [meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0article=39241d=9m=2y=2004 Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals Arab News February 9, 2004 JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia has 'nothing' to offer the world tourist. Whole deserts full of it. It has captivated the imagination of explorers and visionaries for millennia and it is beginning to lose thevery quality that makes it special; the absence of everything else. One of Saudi Arabia's greatest geological wonders, essentially a largehole in the ground, has finally proved too tempting as a rubbish tip. The Wabar Crater is becoming a tourist attraction but is also attracting theattention of graffiti writers and depositors of garbage. As part of the process of making this tectonic treasure much moreaccessible and open to all to wonder at, paved roads now lead to the very edge of the rim, affording a stunning view into the now dry lake bed 350 meters below. The crater stretches over 2 km from rim to rim, far bigger than the meteor impact site that is a major tourist attraction in Arizona. On the night ofa full moon, the pure white salt of the lake bed glows as if lit fromwithin, throwing a crepuscular glow onto the stark cliffs around. A few meters from the rim, lies a field of black lava, textured with bas-relief ripples and swirls as if still liquid. Moonlight glistens onthe semi-polished surface of the flows, silvering the furrows and smoothcurves. Small caves, the result of huge burst bubbles of superheated steam, lie open, roofs partly collapsed allowing rare views inside the lava mass. Smaller caves and fissures are home to foxes and small mammals, theirtracks in the windblown sand betraying their occupancy. The total silence is broken only by the gentle rustle of a blue plastic carrier bag as it tumbles in the night breeze, or the staccato clatter ofan aluminum can rolled over the cliff by a playful zephyr. The national tourist drive which provided the roads, has also spawned arash of startlingly ugly white rectangular sheds, placed there as protectionfrom the sun and for families to relax in and enjoy the scene. Large white-painted surfaces also attract the semi-literate with theirspraycans. All of the white surfaces - and even the blue road signs indicating the route to the crater - now display the scrawl of the graffiti writers. Some have even ventured into the crater, leaving evidence of their passing splashed on the cliff walls. In August last year, Prince Sultan ibn Salman, secretary-general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism, said he believes that tourism will growfrom the bottom up. He sees a future where towns and villages will be able to form a tourism council and develop a local tourist industry. By involving the local people in the commerce of tourism and letting them benefit fromit financially, he said, they will realize its benefits. "They will also protect it. No one can protect the industry except people who feel that it is theirs," he said. "It's a new decentralized approach - the government within five years will literally be out of your hair.That's what's planned, it's what we have announced and it's what the Council of Ministers has agreed on." These are impressive objectives and there are places in the Kingdom that equal any of the heavily protected World Heritage Sites found elsewhere on the planet. The man with the spraycan or the individual who is willing to dump a truckload of industrial garbage in a beauty spot clearly has no understanding of the value of the site and is ahead of the game. Hisefforts to leave his own unique "footprints in the sands of time" have overtaken attempts at conservation through restriction of access or by educating people to appreciate their heritage. The individual who li
Re: [meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals
This story is about the Wahba volcanic crater near Jeddah, not the Wabar impact site. jeff At 10:55 PM 2/8/2004 -0700, Michael Farmer wrote: This is not true! Waber is 18 hours in the sand dunes, and is small craters, not larger than Meteor Crater. What crap is this? Anyone elaborate? Mike Farmer - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:47 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1section=0article=39241d=9m=2y=2004 Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals Arab News February 9, 2004 JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia has 'nothing' to offer the world tourist. Whole deserts full of it. It has captivated the imagination of explorers and visionaries for millennia and it is beginning to lose the very quality that makes it special; the absence of everything else. One of Saudi Arabia's greatest geological wonders, essentially a large hole in the ground, has finally proved too tempting as a rubbish tip. The Wabar Crater is becoming a tourist attraction but is also attracting the attention of graffiti writers and depositors of garbage. As part of the process of making this tectonic treasure much more accessible and open to all to wonder at, paved roads now lead to the very edge of the rim, affording a stunning view into the now dry lake bed 350 meters below. The crater stretches over 2 km from rim to rim, far bigger than the meteor impact site that is a major tourist attraction in Arizona. On the night of a full moon, the pure white salt of the lake bed glows as if lit from within, throwing a crepuscular glow onto the stark cliffs around. A few meters from the rim, lies a field of black lava, textured with bas-relief ripples and swirls as if still liquid. Moonlight glistens on the semi-polished surface of the flows, silvering the furrows and smooth curves. Small caves, the result of huge burst bubbles of superheated steam, lie open, roofs partly collapsed allowing rare views inside the lava mass. Smaller caves and fissures are home to foxes and small mammals, their tracks in the windblown sand betraying their occupancy. The total silence is broken only by the gentle rustle of a blue plastic carrier bag as it tumbles in the night breeze, or the staccato clatter of an aluminum can rolled over the cliff by a playful zephyr. The national tourist drive which provided the roads, has also spawned a rash of startlingly ugly white rectangular sheds, placed there as protection from the sun and for families to relax in and enjoy the scene. Large white-painted surfaces also attract the semi-literate with their spraycans. All of the white surfaces - and even the blue road signs indicating the route to the crater - now display the scrawl of the graffiti writers. Some have even ventured into the crater, leaving evidence of their passing splashed on the cliff walls. In August last year, Prince Sultan ibn Salman, secretary-general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism, said he believes that tourism will grow from the bottom up. He sees a future where towns and villages will be able to form a tourism council and develop a local tourist industry. By involving the local people in the commerce of tourism and letting them benefit from it financially, he said, they will realize its benefits. They will also protect it. No one can protect the industry except people who feel that it is theirs, he said. It's a new decentralized approach - the government within five years will literally be out of your hair. That's what's planned, it's what we have announced and it's what the Council of Ministers has agreed on. These are impressive objectives and there are places in the Kingdom that equal any of the heavily protected World Heritage Sites found elsewhere on the planet. The man with the spraycan or the individual who is willing to dump a truckload of industrial garbage in a beauty spot clearly has no understanding of the value of the site and is ahead of the game. His efforts to leave his own unique footprints in the sands of time have overtaken attempts at conservation through restriction of access or by educating people to appreciate their heritage. The individual who litters with drinks cans and plastic bags is willfully careless of the fact that others, who have the same wish to visit a site of great beauty, might not wish to sit in a half-eaten kabsa or swat itinerant plastic bags. If this behavior goes on for five years, the damage to the tourist attraction might be so great that it cannot be reversed. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you are selective about the kind of tourist you want, especially in a country like Saudi Arabia, said Prince Sultan. We are not the kind of country that has to have tourists at any cost or at any price. Again, these are right and noble ideals. But the sad truth is that until
[meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1section=0article=39241d=9m=2y=2004 Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals Arab News February 9, 2004 JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia has 'nothing' to offer the world tourist. Whole deserts full of it. It has captivated the imagination of explorers and visionaries for millennia and it is beginning to lose the very quality that makes it special; the absence of everything else. One of Saudi Arabia's greatest geological wonders, essentially a large hole in the ground, has finally proved too tempting as a rubbish tip. The Wabar Crater is becoming a tourist attraction but is also attracting the attention of graffiti writers and depositors of garbage. As part of the process of making this tectonic treasure much more accessible and open to all to wonder at, paved roads now lead to the very edge of the rim, affording a stunning view into the now dry lake bed 350 meters below. The crater stretches over 2 km from rim to rim, far bigger than the meteor impact site that is a major tourist attraction in Arizona. On the night of a full moon, the pure white salt of the lake bed glows as if lit from within, throwing a crepuscular glow onto the stark cliffs around. A few meters from the rim, lies a field of black lava, textured with bas-relief ripples and swirls as if still liquid. Moonlight glistens on the semi-polished surface of the flows, silvering the furrows and smooth curves. Small caves, the result of huge burst bubbles of superheated steam, lie open, roofs partly collapsed allowing rare views inside the lava mass. Smaller caves and fissures are home to foxes and small mammals, their tracks in the windblown sand betraying their occupancy. The total silence is broken only by the gentle rustle of a blue plastic carrier bag as it tumbles in the night breeze, or the staccato clatter of an aluminum can rolled over the cliff by a playful zephyr. The national tourist drive which provided the roads, has also spawned a rash of startlingly ugly white rectangular sheds, placed there as protection from the sun and for families to relax in and enjoy the scene. Large white-painted surfaces also attract the semi-literate with their spraycans. All of the white surfaces - and even the blue road signs indicating the route to the crater - now display the scrawl of the graffiti writers. Some have even ventured into the crater, leaving evidence of their passing splashed on the cliff walls. In August last year, Prince Sultan ibn Salman, secretary-general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism, said he believes that tourism will grow from the bottom up. He sees a future where towns and villages will be able to form a tourism council and develop a local tourist industry. By involving the local people in the commerce of tourism and letting them benefit from it financially, he said, they will realize its benefits. They will also protect it. No one can protect the industry except people who feel that it is theirs, he said. It's a new decentralized approach - the government within five years will literally be out of your hair. That's what's planned, it's what we have announced and it's what the Council of Ministers has agreed on. These are impressive objectives and there are places in the Kingdom that equal any of the heavily protected World Heritage Sites found elsewhere on the planet. The man with the spraycan or the individual who is willing to dump a truckload of industrial garbage in a beauty spot clearly has no understanding of the value of the site and is ahead of the game. His efforts to leave his own unique footprints in the sands of time have overtaken attempts at conservation through restriction of access or by educating people to appreciate their heritage. The individual who litters with drinks cans and plastic bags is willfully careless of the fact that others, who have the same wish to visit a site of great beauty, might not wish to sit in a half-eaten kabsa or swat itinerant plastic bags. If this behavior goes on for five years, the damage to the tourist attraction might be so great that it cannot be reversed. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you are selective about the kind of tourist you want, especially in a country like Saudi Arabia, said Prince Sultan. We are not the kind of country that has to have tourists at any cost or at any price. Again, these are right and noble ideals. But the sad truth is that until environmental education gets through to the average citizen, the unique wilderness heritage of the Kingdom will be under greater threat from the indigenous rather than the foreign tourist. It seems that as long as a carload of individuals can drive right to the edge of the crater, treat it as a dining area or rubbish tip and then disappear back home with ease thanks to an open road, the preservation of the wilderness will be under threat. Its survival requires responsibility and an appreciation of nature that some people simply do not have.
Re: [meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals
This is not true! Waber is 18 hours in the sand dunes, and is small craters, not larger than Meteor Crater. What crap is this? Anyone elaborate? Mike Farmer - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:47 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1section=0article=39241d=9m=2y=2004 Wabar Crater Under Threat From Vandals Arab News February 9, 2004 JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia has 'nothing' to offer the world tourist. Whole deserts full of it. It has captivated the imagination of explorers and visionaries for millennia and it is beginning to lose the very quality that makes it special; the absence of everything else. One of Saudi Arabia's greatest geological wonders, essentially a large hole in the ground, has finally proved too tempting as a rubbish tip. The Wabar Crater is becoming a tourist attraction but is also attracting the attention of graffiti writers and depositors of garbage. As part of the process of making this tectonic treasure much more accessible and open to all to wonder at, paved roads now lead to the very edge of the rim, affording a stunning view into the now dry lake bed 350 meters below. The crater stretches over 2 km from rim to rim, far bigger than the meteor impact site that is a major tourist attraction in Arizona. On the night of a full moon, the pure white salt of the lake bed glows as if lit from within, throwing a crepuscular glow onto the stark cliffs around. A few meters from the rim, lies a field of black lava, textured with bas-relief ripples and swirls as if still liquid. Moonlight glistens on the semi-polished surface of the flows, silvering the furrows and smooth curves. Small caves, the result of huge burst bubbles of superheated steam, lie open, roofs partly collapsed allowing rare views inside the lava mass. Smaller caves and fissures are home to foxes and small mammals, their tracks in the windblown sand betraying their occupancy. The total silence is broken only by the gentle rustle of a blue plastic carrier bag as it tumbles in the night breeze, or the staccato clatter of an aluminum can rolled over the cliff by a playful zephyr. The national tourist drive which provided the roads, has also spawned a rash of startlingly ugly white rectangular sheds, placed there as protection from the sun and for families to relax in and enjoy the scene. Large white-painted surfaces also attract the semi-literate with their spraycans. All of the white surfaces - and even the blue road signs indicating the route to the crater - now display the scrawl of the graffiti writers. Some have even ventured into the crater, leaving evidence of their passing splashed on the cliff walls. In August last year, Prince Sultan ibn Salman, secretary-general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism, said he believes that tourism will grow from the bottom up. He sees a future where towns and villages will be able to form a tourism council and develop a local tourist industry. By involving the local people in the commerce of tourism and letting them benefit from it financially, he said, they will realize its benefits. They will also protect it. No one can protect the industry except people who feel that it is theirs, he said. It's a new decentralized approach - the government within five years will literally be out of your hair. That's what's planned, it's what we have announced and it's what the Council of Ministers has agreed on. These are impressive objectives and there are places in the Kingdom that equal any of the heavily protected World Heritage Sites found elsewhere on the planet. The man with the spraycan or the individual who is willing to dump a truckload of industrial garbage in a beauty spot clearly has no understanding of the value of the site and is ahead of the game. His efforts to leave his own unique footprints in the sands of time have overtaken attempts at conservation through restriction of access or by educating people to appreciate their heritage. The individual who litters with drinks cans and plastic bags is willfully careless of the fact that others, who have the same wish to visit a site of great beauty, might not wish to sit in a half-eaten kabsa or swat itinerant plastic bags. If this behavior goes on for five years, the damage to the tourist attraction might be so great that it cannot be reversed. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you are selective about the kind of tourist you want, especially in a country like Saudi Arabia, said Prince Sultan. We are not the kind of country that has to have tourists at any cost or at any price. Again, these are right and noble ideals. But the sad truth is that until environmental education gets through to the average citizen, the unique wilderness heritage of the Kingdom will be under greater threat from
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[meteorite-list] Wabar Pearls or Beads
Anne wrote: I hope they are good enough but I am not so sure. 2 are of a Wabar pearl with black grainy interior. And 2 of another pearl showing WHITE interior. Although I am too busy to go to the library, a quick check of the references on the Wabar impact crater show a number of citations that discuss the impact melts created by this impact. Possibly, one of the below reference might help. The four that seem most promising are: See, T. H., F. Hoerz, and A. V. Murali-A-V (1988) Two types of impact melt from the Wabar Crater, Saudi Arabia. Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. no. 19, Part 3; pp. 1053-1054. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, TX. Spencer, L. J., (1933) Meteoric irons and silica glass from the meteorite craters of Henbury, central Australia, and Wabar, Arabia. Zentralblatt fuer Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abteilung A, Mineralogie und Petrographie. vol. 4, pp. 142-143. Spencer, L. J. and M. H. Hey (1977) Meteoric iron and silica-glass from the meteorite craters of Henbury (central Australia) and Wabar (Arabia). In Meteorite craters, G. J. H. McCall, ed., pp. 99-124. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross. Stroudsburg, PA. Wright, F. W., and P. W. Hodge-P-W (1981) A comparison of the composition and morphology of spherules from meteorite craters with those of deep sea spherules. Meteoritics. vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 405. A possibly promising article is: Short, N. M. (1966) Shock-lithification of unconsolidated rock materials. Science. vol. 154, no. 3747, pp. 382-384. Other articles about the impact melts at the Wabar Crater are: Hoerz, F., D. W. Mittlefehld, and T. H. See (1991a) Dissemination and fractionation of projectile material in impact melts from the Wabar Crater, Saudi Arabia. Abstracts for the 54th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society. LPI Contribution, no. 766, p. 94. Lunar and Planetary Institute. Houston, TX. Hoerz, F., D. W. Mittlefehld, and T. H. See (1991b) Dissemination and fractionation of projectile material in impact melts from the Wabar Crater, Saudi Arabia. Meteoritics. vol. 26, no. 4, p. 346-347. Hoerz, F., T. H. See, A. V. Murali, and D. P. Blachard (1989) Heterogeneous dissemination of projectile materials in the impact melts from Wabar Crater, Saudi Arabia. Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. no. 19, pp. 697-709. Pergamon. New York, NY. Mittlefehldt, D. W., T. H. See, and F. Hoerz (1992) Dissemination and fractionation of projectile materials in the impact melts from Wabar Crater, Saudi Arabia. Meteoritics. vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 361-370. See, T. H., J. H. Wagstaff, S. R. Yang, F. Hoerz, and G. A. Kay (1996a) Small-scale compositional heterogeneity of impact melts. Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. vol. 27, Part 3, pp. 1169-1170. See, T. H., J. H. Wagstaff, S. R. Yang, F. Hoerz, and G. A. Kay (1996b) Small-scale compositional heterogeneity of impact melts. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. vol. 31, Supplement, p. 126. Swayze, G. A., and R. f. Kokaly (1999) Spectral detection of a 2.25-micron absorption band in impactites formed from siliceous sediments; a new way to locate shocked materials. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 31, no. 7, p. 122 Other article about the Wabar Craters are: Almohandis, A. A. (1994) The Wabar Meteorite and its impact crater, Saudi Arabia. Program with Abstracts - Geological Association of Canada; Mineralogical Association of Canada; Canadian Geophysical Union, Joint Annual Meeting. vol. 19, p. 2, Geological Association of Canada. Waterloo, ON, Canada. Chao, E. C. T., J. J. Fahey, and J. Littler-Janet (1961) Coesite from Wabar crater, near A1 Hadida, Arabia. Science. vol. 133, no. 3456, pp. 882-883. Johnson, P. H., D. D. Bogard, and F. Hoerz (1988) Shock- implanted noble gases in samples from the Wabar impact crater; implications for other terrestrial craters and the surface of Mars. Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. no. 19, Part 2, pp. 557-558. Gibbons, R. V., F. Hoerz, and R. V. Morris (1975) Fractionation of metallic spherules in Wabar, Henbury, and Monturaqui impactites. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. vol. 56, no. 12, Fall annual meeting, p. 1017. Grieve, R. A. F. (1992) Projectile identification in impact melts. Meteoritics. vol. 27, no. 4, p. 324. Marvin, U. B. (1976) The impact of Wabar. International Geological Congress, Abstracts--Congres Geologique Internationale, Resumes. no. 25, vol. 3, p. 925 McCall, G. J. H. (1977) The Wabar craters. In Meteorite craters, G. J. H. McCall, ed., pp. 97-98. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross. Stroudsburg, PA. McHone, J. H., and R. S. Dietz (1988) Arabian Peninsula; known and suspected impact structures. Papers presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society. Lunar and Planetary Institute, LPI Contribution no, 665, p. D-1. Lunar and Planetary Institute.
[meteorite-list] Wabar Pearls or Beads
Anne wrote: I got a few more at the Denver Show, mostly odd-shaped ones, often meaning that they are chipped or broken. I have been looking at the broken ones and was rather surprised. I was expecting them to be glassy all the way through like Libyan Glass or Moldavite, but that is not the case at all. I found that they are composed of a glassy outer shell packed with tiny black grains of sand (I suppose) tightly packed and glued together. It looks as if the vitrification process was incomplete, only the outer layer turned to glass. Any comments? No, not (yet). Are there any pictures you could put up on your website. I would very much like to see those tiny black grains of sand that are so tightly packed and glued together as you state. They m a y (speculation only so far!) represent highly * d e- * vitrified impactite melt beads. Best regards, Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Wabar Pearls or Beads
In a message dated 9/26/2002 11:35:59 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anne wrote: I got a few more at the Denver Show, mostly "odd-shaped" ones, often meaning that they are chipped or broken. I have been looking at the broken ones and was rather surprised. I was expecting them to be glassy all the way through like Libyan Glass or Moldavite, but that is not the case at all. I found that they are composed of a glassy outer shell packed with tiny black grains of sand (I suppose) tightly packed and glued together. It looks as if the vitrification process was incomplete, only the outer layer turned to glass. Any comments? No, not (yet). Are there any pictures you could put up on your website. I would very much like to see those tiny black grains of sand that are so tightly packed and glued together as you state. They m a y (speculation only so far!) represent highly * d e- * vitrified impactite melt beads. Certainement Bernd! There are 4 pictures waiting for you (and whomever else is interested). I hope they are good enough but I am not so sure. 2 are of a Wabar pearl with black grainy interior. And 2 of another pearl showing WHITE interior. Now I am very curious to see what explanation there can be, particularly the 2nd one. And what exactly do you mean by "de-vitrify" ? Here are the links: www.impactika.com/images/WabarBlack1.jpg www.impactika.com/images/WabarBlack2.jpg www.impactika.com/images/WabarWhite1.jpg www.impactika.com/images/WabarWhite2.jpg Best of luck. Anne Black IMCA #2356 www.IMPACTIKA.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [meteorite-list] Wabar
Hey. I need informations about Wabar tectites/impactites ??? What is this exactly? These are glassy balls of few centimetre diameter that resulted from melting the desert sand as result of a famous Wabar meteorite crater. I have got tens of these tektites, but sorry not here with me so I dont have any photos now. For more info,, do to: http://www.s-d-g.freeserve.co.uk/wabar.html http://www.sciam.com/1998/1198issue/1198wynn.html http://www.meteorite.ch/wabar.htm Sincerely Mohamed H. Yousef -- As vsion grows expresion becomes more difficult.,,, AnNiffari. From: PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] Wabar Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:50:58 +0100 Hey. I need informations about Wabar tectites/impactites ??? What is this exactly? -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]--[ IMCA#3667 ]- http://www.meteoryt.net Meteorite Information Center http://www.polandmet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.studiomc.com.pl[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vistapro.prv.pl +GSM (607) 535 195 - __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Wabar
Hey. I need informations about Wabar tectites/impactites ??? What is this exactly? -[ MARCIN CIMALA ]--[ IMCA#3667 ]- http://www.meteoryt.net Meteorite Information Center http://www.polandmet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.studiomc.com.pl[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vistapro.prv.pl +GSM (607) 535 195 - __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Wabar
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, PolandMET.com wrote: Hey. I need informations about Wabar tectites/impactites ??? What is this exactly? Wabar tektites, or Wabar pearls as they are usually known, are small beads of glass from the Wabar meteorite impact. I own one that is glassy black, about the size of my little fingernail, and shaped roughly like a teardrop. Nomads and desert travellers used to pick them up as souvenirs, thinking they really were pearls; it was centuries before they were recognized as the byproduct of meteorite impact. The shifting sands of the desert have largely covered over the original crater now, and years of being picked over have greatly reduced the number of pearls to be easily found, although some still come out of the area. I got mine from Anne at Impactika, she may still have some, or pictures on her website. Tracy Latimer __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Wabar
Marcin wrote: I need information about Wabar tektites/impactites ??? What is this exactly? Hello Marcin and List, You'll find some useful background info in: NORTON O.R. (1998) Rocks From Space II, pp. 143-145: Wabar Crater Field. or if necessary a more thorough treatment of the subject in: WYNN J.C. and SHOEMAKER E.M. (1998) The Day the Sands Caught Fire: A desert impact site demonstrates the wrath of rocks from space (Scientific American, Nov. 98, pp. 36-43). Best regards, Bernd __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
