Suevite
Meteorite, tektite, or impactite
Also called Impact breccia
About it
Impact breccia of rock fragments and flattened blobs of dark impact-melt glass in a fine matrix. Named for Swabia; its type locality is the Ries crater in Bavaria, where it was used to build St. George's Church in Nördlingen.
- Type
- Meteorite, tektite, or impactite (impactite)
- Group
- Impactite (impact breccia)
- Colours
- grey, greenish grey, with dark glass bits
- Transparency
- opaque
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.