Darwin Glass - 8 Pieces Abalone This fossil fern was found

This fossil fern was found on the forest floor in the Gala area near Cranbrook Tasmania

Largest 25mm x 17 mm x 11

5cm  17grams

The black and brown dendrites against the cream sandstone make for a great neutral piece of jewellery art

Darwin Glass - 8 Pieces Abalone This fossil fern was foundThe day it rained glass. Around 800 thousand years ago a large nickel iron meteorite that was once part of the core of an ancient planet slammed into the isolated west coast of Tasmania south of Queenstown, forming a large impact crater. This big old lump of space rock was travelling at an estimated 22 thousand kilometers per second. Before it had even hit the ground the heat and pressure waves generated from its passage through the Earths atmosphere