lechatelierite: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	supercooled liquid silica • vitreous silica

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meteoritic silica glass fulgurite sand fulgurite rock fulgurite quartz chert and flint jasper amethyst rock crystal citrine smoky quartz chalcedony rose quartz Venus’s-hairstone hawk’s-eye

Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.

(Bed) Rocks and (Flint) Stones