Tektites and Their Origin
Author: John Aloysius O'Keefe
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Aloysius O'Keefe
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: B. O. Dressier
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0813722934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprises 28 papers which grew out of the International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution, August/September, 1992 in Sudbury, Ontario. The interdisciplinary papers, encompassing diverse studies from trace element geochemistry to planetary exploration, are arranged into f
Author: Gerald Joseph Home McCall
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781862390850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text commences with the history of tektites, from mediaeval China, through finds in Czechoslovakia in the 18th century and Darwin's description while on the Beagle, to 20th-century finds in South East Asia, the Ivory Coast and the USA. The four major strewn fields are described, followed by their extension by deep sea finds of microtektites and the recognition of irregular, large layered tektites in SE Asia.