Origin of tektites - Constraints from heavy noble gas concentrations

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Sep 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993metic..28..586m&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 28, no. 4, p. 586-589.

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Chemical Composition, Impact Melts, Rare Gases, Tektites, Geochemistry, Petrology

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Heavy noble gas concentrations in tektites (splash-form type) are considerably lower than those in impact glasses. This cannot be explained only by high formation temperatures for tektites, as might be expected from low concentrations of water and most volatile elements in tektites, and indicates that tektites solidified in an atmosphere with an ambient pressure of much less than 1 atm. The heavy noble gas concentrations may be an indicator of the height to which tektites were carried by the impact before they solidified.

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