T15 Impact Cratering across the Solar System

Monday, 26 October 2020
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Meeting Rooms

INTERMEDIATE OR STRETCHED TEKTITES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

Paper number: T15-14
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 4:30 PM – 4:40 PM

Authors

Abstract

Historically, there are three kinds of tektite, splashform tektites which are spheres, pattys, teardrops and dumbbells etc., ablated tektites which are splashforms that have been partially reshaped by atmospheric entry and Muong- Nong tektites that are layered and different in some ways from other tektites. In 1983, Izokh and An announced another type, the intermediate tektites. Intermediate tektites are splashforms that show internal layering. Other than Schnetzler, 1992, very little has been published on these unusual tektites. It seems that intermediate tektites are less commonly seen than any of the other kinds. In this poster we present new data on intermediate tektites and propose that they are a form of stretched tektite glass that retained straight schlieren without contortion.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 52, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-356508

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