Beaverhead Shattercone Museum Grade - Huge

This real Beaverhead Shattercone is museum grade. Dubbed "Angelwings" it is our huge, 73 pound, museum-grade shatter cone from the Beaverhead, Montana asteroid impact site. It's shown here in approximately correct scale with our handyman Atlas.

As with every shatter cone, Angelwings is a beautiful and fascinating relic of a devastating day (estimated at 600 million years ago) in what is now Montana, USA. On that day an asteroid estimated to have been about 6 miles in diameter slammed into the Earth, creating a maelstrom of shock, heat, and fiery shrapnel that would have destroyed the animal life and vegetation in a circle encompassing most of the present-day United States. The remains of the 35 mile diameter crater lie in SW Montana and Idaho, and this beautiful red quartzite shatter cone is a witness to the destruction.

Shattercones are among the most interesting geological rocks on Earth.

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