Bernd, Mark, Dennis, Brian, et al, This is quite interesting because Dennis sent me pictures of his Holbrook Tektite find and it is identical to my finds both in color ( golden brown not grey) and texture. I like that "Arizonaites" or Arizona Whatevers". Again they look like Columbianites and the really interesting thing is that Holbrook is quite a distance from Wilcox AZ. where I found all of mine. There are some really good pictures of Tektites in Marvin's Book. "Southwest Meteorite Collection" pages 182-197. Carl
-- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax ---- [email protected] wrote: > Hello Brian, Dennis, Mark, Carl and List, > > Brian wrote: > > "Obsidian explodes when heated quickly. So - it is easy to eliminate > an Obsidian as a Tektite, just by throwing alot of heat at it quickly." > > In May or June 2000, our late Jim Kriegh put his new welding torch > on an Apache Tear, and, ... ... it exploded! > > Jim once had a chemist friend heat one of the numerous "Arizonaites" > he and Twink had collected (and that's probably what Carl is talking > about in his post to the List: "Years ago I found what I thought was > a strewnfield of tektites in Southern AZ") in an oven along with an > Apache tear. > > The Apache Tear foamed as the water started coming out of it but the AZite > (Jim once called them "Arizona whatevers" :-) showed no signs of water. > The chemist friend then even raised the temperature another 500°F above > what the Apache Tear started foaming and all the Arizonaite did was glow > red. After cooling it looked the same as before. > > Twink told me that during another heating experiment, "one of their AZites > turned bright red, fell into three pieces and then returned looking normal". > > 18 of these enigmatic "glasses" reside in my meteorite collection, and, yes, > their coloration in transmitted light is that of so-called "Columbianites". > > Best wishes from rainy, thundery, > stormy Southern Germany, > > Bernd > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
