Tiny pieces of glass found scattered across Australia have revealed evidence of a previously unknown giant asteroid impact. This discovery centers on a new type of tektite, a natural glass formed when ...

Scattered thinly over the earth’s surface are large patches of tektites—glassy lumps up to several inches across, of mysterious and probably unearthly origin. In Britain’s Nature, American Chemist ...

Throughout the planet, there are only a handful of known tektite strewn fields, which are large swaths of land where natural glass (tektite) was strewn about after forming from terrestrial material ...

A large meteorite can launch bits of molten rock into the atmosphere when it impacts Earth. When that molten rock cools, it forms tektites, shown here. Photo by Robert Eastman / Alamy Stock Photo The ...

WITH reference to Dr. L. J. Spencer's letter in NATURE of October 7, p. 571, on the origin of tektites, the strongest argument against his suggestion that they were formed by the fusion of terrestrial ...

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THE chemical composition of tektites is a major factor to be considered when investigating theories of tektite origin. Many investigators have remarked on the similarity of the composition of tektites ...