Most people have never seen a fulgurite, and many that have probably did not realize what it was at the time. |
A 10-foot fulgurite is being prepared for display in the lobby of UF's new engineering building. |
In one room are 10,000 replicas of a fulgurite, while stacks of booklets about fulgurites and related subjects occupy another. |
After thunderstorms on the Florida coasts beach combers find fulgurite in the sands. |
Without actually seeing the specimen I'd have to say that it does sound like you have a fulgurite. |
As mentioned, the Elko Hills strike is apparently the type locality for exogenic fulgurites in addition to being an exemplary occurrence of soil-gravel fulgurite tubes. |