Help with ID please. I think it is Moldavite tektite……,,.,

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If it is a black tektite, it's more likely to be either Indochinitas, Australitas, Phillippinitas or Ivorites; Moldavite would be greenish.
IMO, Don in SoCal.
 

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More detailed reply here, on your duplicate thread:


Where did you find this?.
 

More detailed reply here, on your duplicate thread:


Where did you find this?.
I did find it in England. But I could have made it here from Europe. And maybe it’s from a different metiorite strike.
 

I did find it in England. But I could have made it here from Europe. And maybe it’s from a different metiorite strike.

Sorry, but England is way outside the strewn field for Moldavite, and in the wrong direction from the impact site that created it. The spread was to the north and east.

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Map of the Central European tektite strewn field and the Ries parent crater. The arrows define the current outer limits and axis of symmetry of the strewn field [Geochemical characterization of moldavites from a new locality, the Cheb Basin, Czech Republic – Řanda, Mizera, Frána & Kučera – 2008).

It takes a particular kind of impact to create tektites and there are no known impact sites which could have resulted in tektites landing in our country.
 

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