[meteorite-list] Tektite Identification

From: S.Singletary <jumper_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:50:23 2004
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20020405154849.00b0c738_at_hesiod>

They are differentiated based on composition. They can (and do) look the same.
(From L. Elkins, our resident tektite expert).


At 02:18 PM 4/5/2002 -0600, Treiman, Allan wrote:
>A further question --
>
> How can you tell one kind of tektite from another?
>Say an australite from a bediasite from a small
>indochinite?
>
> Allan

Steven Singletary
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Dept. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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Received on Fri 05 Apr 2002 03:49:48 PM PST