tektite|tektites in English
noun
dark glassy rock thought to be the result of meteors striking the Earth's crust (Geology)
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1. ‘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
2. ‘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
3. TEKTITE - EXCEEDINGLY RARE, COMPLETE FLANGED-BUTTON Australite Western Australia Closing the tektite section is an aerodynamic-shaped Australite
4. Australite tektites are a group of tektites generally believed to be members of the very large Indochina strewnfield
5. Thank you! Yes, it is a tektite from Australia, Australite
6. What does Australite mean? (mineralogy) A kind of tektite found in Australia
7. 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
8. Australite s and related forms comprise about 10 percent of the tektites found in Australia
9. Australites are tektites found in Australia.They are mostly dark or black, and have shapes including discs …
10. Australite (countable and uncountable, plural Australites) (mineralogy) A kind of tektite found in Australia.
11. Cataclysmic event that produced Australite tektites, around 780,000 years ago, has remained mysterious and scientifically contentious
12. Flanged Australite buttons are perhaps the most coveted tektite morphology that exists, and they are, indeed, glorious things
13. 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.
14. 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
15. 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.
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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)