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Fulgurites

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Fulgurites are formed by lightning strikes. Heat from the strike melts silica in the ground and fuses it into hollow tubes – more at wikipedia.

Posted by scott on Friday, March 12, 2010, at 2:53 pm. Filed under Ugly Nuggets. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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