On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:49:08 -0600, "Bob King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>result of devitrification (or some other sort of erosive action) or were 
>these pits formed at the time of creation from escaping gases and water 
>vapor? 

I say escaping gases.  Look at this tektite from my collection (I've had these 
around 20 years, LONG
before I had any meteorites.)  The flow-line run straight through the large 
pits, even changing
direction slightly within them.  That means that the pits had to predate the 
flow lines.  But then
some of the SMALL pits do interrupt the flow lines, meaning that they formed 
last.  I would suppose
the major gas/water packets bubbled out first, then the small ones.

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tektite_flowlines.jpg
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