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Apache Tears Prepacked Stones and Fossils
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Natural Volcanic Obsidian
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Apache tears are round nodules of natural volcanic obsidian. They are produced when molten lava droplets are thrown high into the air from an erupting volcano. The legend of Apache Tears, as all really good legends do, combines fact with fiction. During the late 1800s the U.S. Cavalry was chasing a group of renegade Apache indians and had them surrounded on three sides with a cliff on the fourth side. The indians chose to jump over the cliff to certain death rather than be captured. They all died, men, women and children. The locality of this tragedy was near Superior, Arizona, and the cliff is now called Apache Leap. After the turn of the century, a deposit of Perlite and Obsidian nodules was found near Superior, and the old historical fact gained some new energy when the locals started calling the Obsidian nodules "Apache Tears", stating that these nodules were, in fact, dried or frozen tears shed by some of the surviving members of the Apaches that chose to jump from the cliff. |
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