(WGHP) – “Can lightning turn sand at the beach into glass?” Dianne from Winston-Salem asks. “If so, how and in what conditions?” Yes, it is possible for lightning to turn sand into glass. However, ...

Studying volcanic eruptions in person can be dangerous, and scientists have died trying. Volcanic lightning -- yes, volcanoes make lightning! -- by contrast offers a safer opportunity to examine what ...

Researchers have proposed a mechanism for the generation of glass spherules in geologic deposits through the occurrence of volcanic lightning. The existence of fulgurites -- glassy products formed in ...

Geologists are familiar with something most of us have never seen—spherules, or microscopic balls of natural glass that hide in sediments all over the world. A new study reports a previously unknown ...

When lightning strikes the beach or desert, the electricity vaporizes the sand in less than a second, creating a geological phenomenon you might have to see to believe. The sand vaporizes as the ...

LAKE WALES, Fla – Take a look at these amazing glass fossils right here in Florida formed during lightning strikes. Florida’s is struck by lightning more than any state in the U.S. and when the bolt ...