Shocked quartz

Hey there little buddy! So, you know that rocks can get really hot and melt, right? It's kind of like when you heat up ice cream and it starts to melt into a puddle. Well, sometimes rocks can get even hotter than that, like when a big meteorite crashes into the earth really fast.

When a meteorite hits the Earth, it makes a really big impact and the rock gets squished and squeezed really tight. It's kind of like when you squish Play-Doh really hard in your hand. The rock gets so squished that it changes shape and becomes something new called shocked quartz.

Now, shocked quartz is very special because it looks different than other types of quartz. Instead of being clear and smooth, it has lots of tiny cracks and lines all over it. It's like when you draw all over a picture with crayons and make lots of different marks on it.

Scientists really like studying shocked quartz because they can use it to figure out how big and fast the meteorite was that hit the Earth. They can also use it to learn more about how rocks change when they get really hot and squished.

So that's a quick explanation of shocked quartz, little buddy. Rock on!