Jul 1935
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Nature, Volume 136, Issue 3429, pp. 105-106 (1935).
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GLASSY particles weighing between approximately a gram and occasionally a hundred grams have been found at several widely separated places on the earth's surface. The explanation of the origin of these natural glass particles, known as tektites, is complicated by the series of peculiar forms which they exhibit and the size of the areas over which they are found. They have been collected from each of the States in Australia, and because of this continental distribution are frequently called Australites. Several theories of their origin have been advanced and discussed in NATURE, vols. 131 and 132, 1933. Dr. L. J. Spencer and others suggest that the tektites are `aerial fulgurites', the post-impact result of a great meteorite striking the earth in a region of sandstone or desert sand. Comparison is made with the silica-glass from the meteor craters at Henbury and Wabar. The main difficulty in accepting their theory is the wide distribution of the particles wherever they are found. The W. H. C. Shaw collection of Australites was made over a region of 30,000 square miles on a ``monotonous limestone plain'' on the southern shore of Australia1. Furthermore, Fenner points out that the region is ``without any siliceous rocks whatever'' hence a fulguritic origin for these Australites appears to be impossible.
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