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When Meteorites traveling at high enough speeds hit the earth, the meteorite and a similar portion of the earth is vaporized. What happens next? Imagine a hot (100 degrees F) summer day in the desert with no wind. A 50 ton Iron meteorite plunges straight down and vaporizes itself (lets assume 4,000 degrees C.) and the sand it hits. On impact we have 50 tons of vaporized Iron, 50 tons of vaporized sand, and a towering cloud of sand and dust. Even though the iron and silica is vaporized, those vapors are still heavy. They are going to stay close to the ground, and will be chilled by the air drawn into the draft of the rising plume of sand and hot air. As the vapors cool, they become smaller and heavier, and sink even closer to the ground. As the sand and other material blasted into the sky falls back to the ground, it passes through the vapors, chilling them even more. Soon the vapors are chilled to their "dew point" of around 2,900 degrees C. The vapors cling to the falling sand as they change back to liquid, just as water does when we "seed" clouds. The coated sand grains bump into and stick to other grains, building into larger and larger drops. Electromagnetic forces in the liquid draw the drops into spheres, forcing some sand grains out of the spheres, but the surface tension tends to hold the smaller broken grains and dust in the shell, and traps the rest of the sand inside.

The sand grains inside and outside the Iron/Silica shells are coated with an "Iron/silica Soap Scum" that gives them a reddish cast. As the spheres continue bumping into each other, they attach, and the two spheres become one larger sphere with a thin plane of iron/silica bisects them like the films of soap in soap bubble groups. As the liquid cools closer to the solidification point of about 1,500 degrees C. the joining of spheres becomes sluggish, and odd shapes start appearing. Soon, joined pairs and groups are formed, then they solidify, laying all over the ground like hail cannonballs. I am describing a heretofore undiscovered geological process. I Call the results "Impact Condensate Spheres," or "Impcons," and they should be considered as impact markers wherever they are found

Material eroding down into Crosby Crater Complex Site Three from Site Four. Note the broken "Moqui Marbles" filled with sand, and the black Impcon material that condensed in the pipes formed in Ventilated Hill.

Where would you like to go next? Impcon 2, Impcon 3, Impcon 4, Impcon 5, Associated Rocks, Moqui Marbles