Hello All, Here's a new California locality - Antelope Valley On the flanks of the foothills, just south of the aqueduct and within sight of the Neenach (L6) site.
Here are some URLs: <http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/av-ranch/obsidian.htm> <http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/av-ranch/obsdian2.jpg> A couple of years ago, a rancher contracted our Meteorite-Recovery Team to search his property. Although no meteorites were recovered, we did find some 80 year old iron artifacts, some stone (paleo-Indian) artifacts, and a new locality for "apache tears" obsidian. [Not likely these would be confused as being tektites.] Team member Randy Duncan went on to find a new locality (in Owens Valley) for an "apache tears" variety of obsidian that "looked just like tektites". Sorry, but I don't have any images of those stones. Bob V. ---------------------------------------------------- [meteorite-list] TEKTITES VS. TEARS Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:00:35 -0700 Hi All, On the subject of Apache tears, Anne wrote: > There are many sites in the West for apache tears, > and I have some from at least half a dozen places, > some in Utah, Nevada, and of course from Colorado. You can add California to the list of apache tears locations -- I found a couple at Broadwell Dry Lake north of I-40 a couple years back... They definitely would never be confused for tektites. --Rob --------------- End of Original Message -------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
