Sentences with word «fulgurite»

In 1995, he collaborated with the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, to make replicas of their entire collection of dinosaur track casts, and exhibited these in New York and throughout Europe; in 1997 he collaborated with the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Starke, Florida, to trigger lightning with rockets, and worked with a local souvenir manufacturer to create over 10,000 replicas of a fulgurite created by the lightning strike; in 2000 he collaborated with the Pioneers Museum in the desert community of Imperial Valley, California, to reproduce souvenir copies and large models of their local mountain, Mount Signal, and the unique «Sand Spike» sand concretions found at its base; and in 2003, he created 120 topographical models of the states of Missouri and Kansas, which he donated and delivered himself to 120 small historical society museums in both states.

When a bolt strikes the soil it burns a molten, hollow tube called a fulgurite that Pasek says looks like a «mini volcano with glass splattered around it.»

The simulated lightning bolt also generated a glassy veneer on the rock up to 9 centimeters or so from where the bolt struck, a so - called fulgurite (fulgur is Latin for lightning) that serves as a sign to geologists that rocks have been zapped.

A new analysis of these glassy remnants, or fulgurites, suggests that lightning fries the nutrient phosphorus into a more digestible form.

Steve Roden, installation view of Fulgurites, 2004, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY.