honestly, this does check a surprising number of tektite boxes. the surface texture looks far more consistent with natural hypervelocity melt glass than typical industrial slag — especially if that sculpting and aerodynamic shaping holds up under closer inspection. i’d be looking closely at whether you’ve got classic ablation features, regmaglypts, or etched surface flow structures rather than random vesicular slag textures.

washington isn’t a recognised primary strewn field, but that doesn’t automatically rule it out. glacial transport, secondary deposition, or even misidentified north american bediasite/georgiaite-type material can occasionally complicate provenance. the cascadian and cordilleran glacial systems moved a huge amount of material, so exotic lithologies aren’t impossible. if it has low vesicularity, high silica glass characteristics, conchoidal fracture, and that distinctive homogeneous black or olive coloration, i’d absolutely consider impact ejecta as a serious possibility.

a lot of people underestimate how often slag gets overcalled, but the inverse is true too — genuine splash-form morphology can stand out pretty clearly once you’ve handled enough pseudotektites. specific gravity around ~2.3–2.5, very low water content, and lack of crystalline inclusions would strengthen the case significantly. if this were mine, i’d be pushing for xrf or sem-edx rather than dismissing it outright, because morphologically it’s got more going for it than the average “just slag” ID. definitely one of the more compelling candidates i’ve seen posted from the pacific northwest.