Fulgurite (Morocco)

Fulgurite (variety of lechatelierite) from the Bouarfa area, Morocco

Miniature Specimen: about 1.8" long x 0.25" diameter (45mm x 6mm)

Fulgurites (from the Latin fulgur, meaning "lightning") are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into the ground. Fulgurites are classified as a variety of the mineraloid lechatelierite.