Show WIND IN GEOLOGY it IR meteorites to disappear in liah blei and iut the part played by the air in is turning out to be more important than was generally believed it is not only that it shifts the sands of the desert or the shore and abrades the rocks with a kind of natural sandblast and conveys the ashes of volcanoes to great distances says the boston globe ey by the friction of the atmosphere it fuses meteoric stones and scatters their lust dust far and wide A peculiarity of this in meteoric dust is that it contains numerous little hollow pellets and tubes as well as scales and aug angular 11 lar fragments of vitreous matter these pellets are discovered in ordinary air by the microscope on the towers of cathedrals and on the snows of the alps as well as in the arctic regions moreover they are arc found in the ooze at the bottom of seas and oceans and also in the sedimentary rocks which have been depoi deposited ted by ancient they are formed by the air acting on the melted surface of the meteoric stone and are arc in fact a kind of air bubble of microscopic size daubrey has proved by experiment that granite perforated by a blast of nitroglycerine gases develops such pellets on the fused lining of the blast hole and quite recently INI meunier another french geologist has found that the lava wool formed by the wind blowing on the molten lava of the hawaiian volcano mauna loa after the manner of slag wool consists chiefly of much uch mineral tubes and pellets |