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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 134877, member: 56&quot;]My only experience of obsidian were the pebbles called Apache tears... until the carved pieces from Mexico started showing up.&nbsp; I was pretty much under the impression that obsidian was hard to come by.&nbsp; Not so.&nbsp; Mexico is the 3rd largest source, Oregon and the Rift Valley in Africa having larger deposits.&nbsp; Here is a volcanic flow in the Newbury Volcanic Monument:</p><p><img src="http://www.npexp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/P1170760b_thumb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>170 million cubic yards of obsidian and pumice, and not that old at about 1300 years (about the time of the Viking raids in England).</p><p>And this isn&#039;t the only deposit by far.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.npexp.com/newberry-national-volcanic-monument/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.npexp.com/newberry-national-volcanic-monument/" rel="nofollow">http://www.npexp.com/newberry-national-volcanic-monument/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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