Question: does this basalt look like it is shocked? Optical 40x and 100x.
http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/S2TwistA40x.jpg http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/S2BundlesD100x.jpg http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/S2BundlesB100x.jpg Electron micrograph 300x: http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/HH1_01_300x_30kV_02.jpgThese small multi-oriented and broken grain features seem to match some shocked material photos here:
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect18/Sect18_3.htmlAt least one local granite rock looks like this, even in much larger magnification:
http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/LocalBasaltA40x.jpg http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/LocalBasaltB40x.jpghttp://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/ 20090327localBasaltInterior10x.jpg
http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/RockPhotos/ 20090327localBasaltCrust10x.jpg
The above, to my untrained eye, looks to be not shocked, while the first set of photos show shocked basalt. The question is, do the first set of photos actually show a basalt that is shocked?
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