For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. These are natural glasses formed by the ...

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older. By Katherine Kornei Every few ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a meteorite ...

Professor Rolfe Erickson holds part of his collection of Healdsburg tektites in this 2003 photo. Photo by Jean Wasp, Sonoma State University A scattering of mysterious stones in Sonoma and Solano ...

Tektites are natural glass formed from terrestrial debris falling back to Earth after a meteorite impact. Based on their distribution and chemical composition, researchers mapped out four large strewn ...

Perfect splash: Researcher Kyle Baldwin holding a natural glass-like splash-form tektite in his right hand and a lab-grown waxy tektite in his left. (Courtesy: University of Nottingham) Solid wax ...

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 ...

A fundamental problem in the origin of tektites is the estimation of the composition and nature of the parent material from which they were derived. Of equal importance is the nature and complexity of ...

IN previous publications it has been shown that tektites can be dated by the potassium/argon method 1–3. The potassium/argon ages give the time of their formation and also show which tektite ...