Properties of tektites pertinent to their origin

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Oct 1958

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1958gecoa..14..267b&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 14, Issue 4, pp.267-270

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Theories of the origin of tektites are examined to see if they explain the following critical properties: chemical properties, lechatelierite particles, two periods of melting, flow structure, shapes and sizes, and distribution of age. A volcanic origin either from the earth or the moon cannot explain the above properties; neither can an origin from lightning, or as impactites from the moon, or from collisions of asteroids with each other. The impact theory of can explain the tektites if the molten rock was thrown beyond the earth's atmosphere and was remelted upon its return. The absence of partially fused tektites is against such a hypothesis. The formation of tektites by the destruction of a planet similar to the earth should not be overlooked.

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