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Edeowie glass is a natural glass, or lechatelierite, found in the Australian state of South Australia. It is slag-like, opaque material found as vesicular free forms or sheet-like/ropy masses. It is located throughout a semi-continuous swath in baked pod-like clay Sedimentary rock in an area of about long by along the western side of the Flinders Ranges near Parachilna and east of Lake Torrens. The region in which this glass is found is mostly restricted to concentrations correlated to the ancient shoreline terrace sequence at the locality. It is typically black in appearance, but can occur as variegated grey-green with various streak-like impurities. Pale grey and red-brownish surfaces can be caused by chemical weathering (oxidation, mineralization) and devitrification.Haines, P.W., R.J.F. Jenkins, and S.P. Kelley, 2001, Pleistocene glass in the Australian desert: The case for an impact origin. Geology. v. 29, no. 10, pp. 899–902.Macdonald, F.A., K. Mitchell, and S.E. Cina, 2004, Evidence for a Lightning-Strike Origin of the Edeowie Glass. 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 15–19, 2004, League City, Texas, abstract no.1406.Gifford, A. C., 1999, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 82:165–168, 1999
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