Neodymium and strontium isotopic study of Australasian tektites - New constraints on the provenance and age of target materials

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Jan 1992

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 56, Jan. 1992, p. 483-492.

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Meteoritic Composition, Neodymium Isotopes, Petrology, Strontium Isotopes, Tektites, Chemical Analysis, Chronology, Geochemistry, Meteorite Collisions

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The Nd and Sr isotopic compositions of Australasian tectites (including two flanged Australian tectites, two low-SiO2 Muong Nong-type tectites, and three high-SiO2 Muong Nong-type tectites) and the Nd, Sm, Sr, and Rb concentrations were investigated by isotope-dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry, and the Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr isotope systematics were used to study the characteristics of the parental material. It is shown that the Nd and Sr isotopic data provide evidence that all Australasian tektites were derived from a single sedimentary formation with a narrow range of stratigraphic ages close to 170 Ma. It is suggested that all of the Australasian tektites were derived from a single impact event and that the australites represent the upper part of a melt sheet ejected at high velocity, whereas the indochinites represent melts formed at a lower level in the target material distributed closer to the area of the impact.

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