Crypto-crystalline quartz (I think)
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jason Utas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mel, > Shiva Lingams are ordinary stones that have been polished by people > into their respective shapes to create the religiously symbolic stones > that people so seem to like. They are generally made of ordinary > rocks with nothing really special about them - unless you believe in > their religious/spiritual nature. I suppose you could have one made > out of impactite, or even a meteorite, but I have *never* seen one > made of said materials. They're typically made of that odd > dichromatic sedimentary stone (at least I'm fairly sure it's > sedimentary given the texture), but I'm not exactly sure as to what it > is. > Regards, > Jason > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Melanie Matthews > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good morning list. >> >> I was told once by the store owner of a local rock shop that shivalingams >> are the result of meteor impacts in India... think I recall her claim was >> backed by info from a rock/mineral book that she uses for reference. Is this >> true? I haven't found anything on google that mentions anything on that.. >> >> Regards >> - Mel >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> New! Open Messenger faster on the MSN homepage >> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677405 >> ______________________________________________ >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
