suevite
Sign in to savethumb|Suevite from the Nördlinger Ries impact crater (type locality) thumb|upright|Portal to the town hall's stairway made of suevite in Nördlingen, Germany Suevite is a rock consisting partly of melted material, typically forming a breccia containing glass and crystal or lithic fragments, formed during an impact event. It forms part of a group of rock types and structures that are known as impactites.
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thumb|Suevite from the Nördlinger Ries impact crater (type locality) thumb|upright|Portal to the town hall's stairway made of suevite in Nördlingen, Germany Suevite is a rock consisting partly of melted material, typically forming a breccia containing glass and crystal or lithic fragments, formed during an impact event. It forms part of a group of rock types and structures that are known as impactites.
==Name== The word "suevite" is derived from "Suevia", Latin name of Swabia. The geologist Oliver Sachs was able to show that, over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, this type of rock was recognized as something special and, in 1919, was formally introduced into petrographic science by Adolf Sauer under the name "suevite".