Hello Mark, Carl, List, Mark wrote:
"I have collected a few of the Arizonaites (Saffordites?) in the field and when I first saw them, I was fooled into thinking they were tektites. They look to be solution weathered and I wonder if that in some way removed the water that normally is in obsidian (?)." 09 Apr 1999, our late tektite expert Darryl Futrell wrote to the MetList: I have many examples. I found some beauties east of *Safford*, Arizona back in the 1960s. Three are illustrated in the May 1967 issue of Sky & Telescope. Some start out as "Apache tears" (Safford site) & others break out of obsidian flows. Often they become worn down to oval shapes that look like splashform tektites. But all I have ever seen are banded, whereas splashform tektites all have a contorted flow structure. Sometimes they even have tektite-like colors, but they are never of tektite quality & they will eventually devitrify. Photos of two of them are in the April 1972 Lapidary Journal (by Barnes). ---------------------------------- Best wishes, Bernd ______________________________________________ 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
