Looks like it may be a highly weathered "Desert Rose" - hunk of white,
translucent cryptocrystalline quartz common to the deserts of the SoWest.
Michael
On 10/29/13 6:51 AM, "Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Someone brought this into the museum for an ID. It looks sort of like a
> tektite. It doesn't really look like any slag glass that I've seen. No find
> location was given. Any tektite experts have an opinion?
>
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27008_zps03f
> fc3d1.jpg
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27007_zps7cb
> 05a26.jpg
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27006_zps750
> db031.jpg
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27005_zps5cd
> ed8cd.jpg
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27004_zps07a
> a10ea.jpg
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27002_zps10c
> 0ab1c.jpg
> http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27001_zpsa79
> 7a7da.jpg
>
>
> Phil Whitmer
> Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
>
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