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SUBMITTER: Pasek MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964350 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20160728
When lightning strikes soil, it may generate a cylindrical tube of glass known as a fulgurite. The morphology of a fulgurite is ultimately a consequence of the energy of the lightning strike that formed it, and hence fulgurites may be useful in elucidating the energy distribution frequency of cloud-to-ground lightning. Fulgurites from sand mines in Polk County, Florida, USA were collected and analyzed to determine morphologic properties. Here we show that the energy per unit length of lightning ...[more]