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glass born when a mountain-sized space rock kissed Earth at apocalyptic speed.
means Moldavite is a bottle-green natural glass, prized as a gemstone, formed when a meteorite impact melted terrestrial rock and flung it into the air to cool.
from It is a tektite (from Greek 'tēktos,' meaning 'molten'), and its name comes from the Moldau — the German name for the Vltava River in the Czech Republic — near where the glassy fragments were first found, scattered by an impact event in southern Germany roughly fifteen million years ago.
- origin
- forged by a meteorite impact 15 million years ago
- location
- found only near Czech Republic's Moldau River
- running out
- deposits depleting; geologists predict mining ends soon
- fakes everywhere
- most sold online is melted bottle glass
- alien tint
- green from iron and impact-vaporized minerals
moldavite from bohemia — tektite impact glass from the ries crater impact 15 million years ago, found in czech republic and surrounding regions
vltava river deposits — moldavite specimens concentrated along the vltava river valley in bohemia, where erosion exposes the strewn field