On 8/30/2010 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
"Dr. Boslough has also shown that an LAA from a ~100 meter diameter NEO melted sand into glass across a region about 10 km in diameter during Libyan Desert Glass impact ~35 million years ago. During this event the LAA's fireball settled onto parts of Egypt and Libya for about a minute with temperatures approaching 5,000 K. Its hypersonic blast wave extended radially for about 100 kilometers."
So, does this mean we need a new term for LDG type material? It's not technically a tektite since it formed in place or even an impactite because there was no impact per se. Meltite? Fireballite?
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