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English: "Impact glass bomb" from the Miocene of Germany.

The specimen seen here has been referred to as an aerodynamically-sculpted impact glass bomb. It comes from the Ries Impact Structure area in Bavaria, Germany. The crater has a ~24 kilometer diameter and was formed by the impact of an achondrite body (= stony meteorites that lack a chondritic texture; see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/sets/72157645633038357/ ). The Ries Impact occurred during the mid-Miocene, at about 14.5 to 14.8 million years ago. This is the same age as the Steinheim Impact Crater, which is located east of Stuttgart in southern Germany. The Ries Impact is notable for having produced greenish-colored tektites called moldavites and shock-fragmented belemnite fossils (see elsewhere in the Ries Impact Crater photo album).

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site at or near the Ries Impact Crater, Bavaria, southeastern Germany
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Author James St. John

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