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60.65 CTS GREEN MOLDAVITE PARCEL DEAL [MGW5020]

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Dimensions (mm)
29.000 x 24.000 x 9.000mm
Weight (cts)
60.650
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MOLDAVITE

This is a parcel of natural untreated specimen hand selected for it unique structure.It is app 15 million years old and it is from the Moldau valley in the czeh republic.Ideal as a specimen or as unique piece of jewelery.

Tektites (from Greek tektos, molten) are natural glass rocks up to a few centimeters in size, which most scientists argue were formed by the impact of large meteorites on Earth’s surface. Tektites are typically black or olive-green, and their shape varies from rounded to irregular.

Tektites are among the “driest” rocks, with an average water content of 0.005%.  This is very unusual, as most if not all of the craters where tektites may have formed were underwater before impact. Also, partially melted zircons have been discovered inside a handful of tektites. This, along with the water content, suggests that the tektites were formed under phenomenal temperature and pressure not normally found on the surface of the Earth.

The terrestrial-impact theory states that a meteorite impact melts material from the Earth’s surface and catapults it up to several hundred kilometers away from the impact site, which means that it must have travelled through space (thus explaining the dryness). The molten material cools and solidifies to glass. According to this theory, a meteorite impact causes their formation, but the precursor material of tektites is primarily of terrestrial origin, as determined from isotopic measurements. Today, the terrestrial origin of tektites is widely accepted based on the results of many geochemical and isotopic studies (e.g. Faul H.(1966), Koeberl C.(1990)).

The impact theory relies on the observation that tektites cannot be found in most places on Earth’s surface. They are only found in four strewn fields,  three of which are associated with known impact craters. Only the largest and geologically youngest tektite deposit in Southeast Asia,  called the Australasian nbsp;strewn fieldhas not been definitively linked to an impact site, probably because even very large impact structures are often not easy to detect. For example, since the Chesapeake Bay impact crater,(today the largest known impact structure of the United States and associated with the North American tektite strewn field) is covered by sediments, it was not detected until the early 1990s. Also, the bigger the strewn field, the bigger the area to search for the crater. Since several new craters are identified every year, this is not really regarded as a problem by proponents of the tektite impact theory, except for the expected Australasian crater, a feature that would be less than a million years old and thus easily visible. This crater, if it exists at all, has not been located.

A moldavite tektite

An Indochinite tektite

The ages of tektites from the four strewn fieldshave been determined using radiometric dating methods. The age of moldavites, a type of tektite found in Czech Republic, was determined to be 14 million years, which agrees well with the age determined for the N

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Listing Type : Standard
Product ID : 627081
Starting Bid : $48
Starts : 21st February 2017 11:37 am AEST
Ends : 22nd February 2017 08:44 am AEST
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