Fulgurites (from Latin fulgur 'lightning' and -ite), commonly called "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified...

materials of similar formation processes such as lavinite are anthropogenic, fulgurites, found in many thunderstorm-prone regions and in deserts, are naturally-formed...

The spire-like shape of Thielsen attracts lightning strikes and creates fulgurite, an unusual mineral. The prominent horn forms a centerpiece for the Mount...

has caused compasses in the vicinity to vary by up to eight degrees. Fulgurites can be found on the peak. "Black Kaweah, California". Peakbagger.com....

given the instantaneous nature of lightning strikes in general. However, fulgurite, a glassy tube-like, crust-like, or irregular mineraloid that forms when...

natural or synthetic rubber (organic); lacks a crystalline structure Fulgurite, a variety of the mineraloid lechatelierite Jet, non-crystalline nature...

lightning strikes sand, forming hollow, branching rootlike structures called fulgurites. Trinitite is a glassy residue formed from the desert floor sand at the...

sometimes found on golf courses or in grassy meadows. Branching root-shaped "fulgurite" mineral deposits may also be created as sand and soil is fused into glassy...

Glass that forms when lightning hits sand, as in the film, is called fulgurite. Jake's glassblowing shop was filmed at an old mill named Starr's Mill...

branching, often foamy hollow tube of silica glass called a fulgurite. Not all fulgurites are lechatelierite; the original sand must be nearly pure silica...