tektite in English

noun
1
a small black glassy object, many of which are found over certain areas of the earth's surface, believed to have been formed as molten debris in meteorite impacts and scattered widely through the air.
And downstream of those areas there are tektites being found, but only one or two per county.

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1. TEKTITE - EXCEEDINGLY RARE, COMPLETE FLANGED-BUTTON Australite Western Australia Closing the tektite section is an aerodynamic-shaped Australite

2. Thank you! Yes, it is a tektite from Australia, Australite

3. What does Australite mean? (mineralogy) A kind of tektite found in Australia

4. Australite (countable and uncountable, plural Australites) (mineralogy) A kind of tektite found in Australia.

5. Flanged Australite buttons are perhaps the most coveted tektite morphology that exists, and they are, indeed, glorious things

6. ‘This Australite tektite is an example of rare tektites which have flanges around their margins.’ ‘The flanged Australites are the most fascinating of the tektites and their surface features are the best understood.’ ‘The whole tektite subject has been problematic for generations, and the Australites nicely capture and expand this

7. ‘This Australite tektite is an example of rare tektites which have flanges around their margins.’ ‘The flanged Australites are the most fascinating of the tektites and their surface features are the best understood.’ ‘The whole tektite subject has been problematic for generations, and the Australites nicely capture and expand this

8. Shocked quartz granules and tektite glass spherules, indicative of an impact event, are also common in the K–Pg boundary, especially in deposits from around the Caribbean.

9. A tektite found in southern Australia, occurring as glass balls and spheroidal dumbbell forms of green and black, similar to obsidian and probably of cosmic Explanation of Australite

10. While there are different varieties of Australites, a complete and unblemished flanged-button, like the one offered here, is by far the rarest and most sought-after tektite in the world.

11. RARE FLANGED BUTTON Australite TEKTITE METEORITE FLINDERS AUSTRALIA eBay This perfectly round shaped Australite has several minute perforations, thought to have arisen from pressure experienced in the upper atmosphere

12. Serpentine Wrapped Ankhs; Shungite Pieces; Silver Wrapped Pieces; Smokey Quartz; Sodalite Pieces; Spirit Quartz Pieces; Tiger's Eye Pieces; Tangerine Aura Quartz Pieces; Tektite; Tourmaline Pieces; Turquoise Pieces; Ulexite pieces; White Opal; infinity stones

13. Comparison between a flanged Australite from Port Campbell, Victoria (right) and an artificial product of a wind tunnel experiment (left) by DR Chapman and HK Larsen on tektite glass (NASA photograph, 1963)

14. Australasian; impact; crater; Lao; tektite; The Australasian strewn field, a horizon of glassy clasts (“tektites”) quenched from molten ejecta of a bolide impact about 0.79 Ma (1, 2), extends across about 1/10 of the Earth’s surface ()––from Indochina to East Antarctica and from the Indian to western Pacific Oceans (Fig