Aubrey, Keep working on your book, I'm sure there is a lot of interest in the subject, especially for a source takes all the best research out there and puts it together in a interesting and unified narrative.
Question: > Oblique impacts and those impacting silica rich sedimentary rock favor > tektite production. Tektites are melted and distally ejected terrestrial > rock. I had not heard that Oblique impacts favor tektite production, in fact I thought that high velocity perpendicular impacts favored the vaporized ejecta plume reaching outside the earth's atmosphere. Could you elaborate on the evidence favoring oblique impacts, or provide a link to any research on the topic? Thanks, Mike Fowler Chicago > Hi > > I'm not sure if I qualify as a tektite 'expert', but I have done a lot of > private research. I am working on a book which is 2/3 complete - hopefully > 2011, but I struggle to find the time with my work and new baby! > > I have an extensive reference list on my website www.tektites.co.uk. This > includes links to many freely downloadable papers. I've not updated the site > recently so some material is out of date. Also I am working on an even more > extensive reference list right now. > > Since the 1970's there has been no doubt as to the origin of tektites. They > are formed by an asteroid or comet impacting with the Earth. The tektites are > formed in the very earliest stages of impact. Oblique impacts and those > impacting silica rich sedimentary rock favor tektite production. Tektites are > melted and distally ejected terrestrial rock. > > North American tektites (Bediasites and Georgiaites) come from the Chesapeake > Crater. > > Moldavites come from the Ries crater, Germany > > Ivory Coast tektites come from Bosumtwi Crater in Ghana. > > Australasian tektites come from an undiscovered crater most likely in the Bay > of Tonkin between Vietnam and China, perhaps closer to Vietnam. It will be > discovered and there is no doubt in this. > > Hope this helps, > > Aubrey > www.tektites.co.uk ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
