Trinitite 2.14g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Pink Tourmaline creating an exceptional well-formed ventifact

creating an exceptional well-formed ventifact tektite

There's something very special and different about high altitude Quartz crystals

Due to its unique open lattice crystal structure and the nature of its atomic bonds

this piece shows classic signs of a surface find—a tektite ventifact

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Trinitite 2.14g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Pink Tourmaline creating an exceptional well-formed ventifactFormed on July 16, 1945, when desert sand melted under the intense heat of the worlds first atomic test, Trinitite is a rare historic glass. Collected in the 1940s50s before the site was closed, these preserved pieces are highly collectible relics of history. Size: 18 x 14 x 7mm Weight: 2. 14g Includes: 1. 25" Collector's box with label. History of Trinitite The detonation took place at 5: 29 a. m. on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site, about 35 miles