Regionally extensive ejecta layer of the Australasian tektite strewn field: the MIS 20/19 large meteorite impact in mainland South-East AsiaOPEN ACCESS
Paul A. Carling, Toshihiro Tada, Ryuji Tada, Wickanet Songtham, Alan J. Cresswell, David C. W. Sanderson, Naomi Porat, Jaroon Duangkrayom, Stephen E. Darby & Praphas Chansom Progress in Earth and Planetary ScienceVolume 11, article number…
Origin of the Ca-phosphate inclusions in Ivory Coast and Australasian Muong-Nong-type tektitesOPEN ACCESS
Pierre-Marie Zanetta, Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume, Pierre Rochette, Bruno Reynard, Victor Tricaud, Petanki Soro, Southone Singsoupho, Alain Nicaise Kouamelan, Obrou Monda, David Baratoux Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 18 September 2024 LINK +…
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektiteOPEN ACCESS
A.-M. Seydoux-Guillaume, P. Rochette, E. Gardés, P.-M. Zanetta, S. Sao-Joao, Ph. de Parseval, B.P. Glass Geology, September 04, 2024 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Tektites are terrestrial impact-generated glasses distributed over regions of Earth’s surface…
The “suevite” conundrum, Part 2: Re-examining the type locality at the Ries impact structure, GermanyOPEN ACCESS
Gordon R. Osinski, Richard A. F. Grieve MAPS, Version of Record online: 16 July 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “One of the most common types of allochthonous impactite produced in hypervelocity impact events is…
Understanding microtektite formation: Potassium isotope evidence for condensation in a vapor plumeOPEN ACCESS
Piers Koefoed, Luigi Folco, Gianfranco Di Vincenzo, Nicole X. Nie, Billy P. Glass, Mason Neuman, Kun Wang (王昆) Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 2 July 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Tektite and microtektite formation have important…
Proximal ejecta of the putative parent impact crater for Australasian tektites at the Bolaven Plateau / Reply to Mizera and Strunga: Evidence for the Bolaven impact crater and its ejectaOPEN ACCESS
Jiří Mizera and Vladimír Strunga PNAS, May 13, 2024LETTER LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Sieh et al. (Proximal ejecta of the Bolaven extraterrestrial impact, southern Laos ) support their hypothesis locating the parent impact crater…
Be,La,U-rich spherules as microtektites of terrestrial laterites: What goes up must come downOPEN ACCESS
Steve Desch Submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Recently Loeb et al. (2024, “Recovery and Classification of Spherules from the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014 January 8 (IM1) Bolide”, Res….
Proximal ejecta of the Bolaven extraterrestrial impact, southern LaosOPEN ACCESS
Kerry Sieh, Dayana Schonwalder Angel, Jason Herrin, Brian Jicha, Brad Singer, Vanpheng Sihavong, Weerachat Wiwegwin, Nathanael Wong, and Jia Yong Quah PNAS, received June 19, 2023; accepted October 24, 2023December 4, 2023, 120 (50) LINK…
The chondritic impactor origin of the Ni-rich component in Australasian tektites and microtektitesOPEN ACCESS
L. Folco, P. Rochette, M. D’Orazio, M. Masotta Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 23 September 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “In the Earth’s crust, Ni is generally concentrated in mafic and ultramafic…
Formation of Australasian tektites from gravity and magnetic indicatorsOPEN ACCESS
Kurosh Karimi, Gunther Kletetschka, Jiří Mizera, Verena Meier & Vladimír Strunga Scientific , Volume 13, Article number: 12868 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The parent impact crater of Australasian tektites has not been discovered so…
Structural changes in shocked tektite and their implications to impact-induced glass formation
Toshimori Sekine, Tsubasa Tobase, Youjun Zhang, Ginga Kitahara, Akira Yoshiasa, Tomoko Sato, Takamichi Kobayashi, Akihisa Mori American Mineralogist (2023) 108 (4): 686–694 LINK “Heavy meteorite impacts on Earth’s surface produce melt and vapor that are…
Structural changes in shocked tektite and their implications to impact-induced glass formationOPEN ACCESS
Toshimori Sekine, Tsubasa Tobase, Youjun Zhang, Ginga Kitahara, Akira Yoshiasa, Tomoko Sato, Takamichi Kobayashi, and Akihisa Mori American Mineralogistpreprint PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Heavy meteorite impacts on the Earth surface produce melt and vapor which are…
Quest for the Australasian impact crater: Failings of the candidate location at the Bolaven Plateau, Southern Laos
Jiří Mizera MAPSVersion of Record online: 01 October 2022 LINK “The quest for the parent impact structure for Australasian tektites (AAT) has remained without solution for almost a century. The present paper doubts the plausibility…
Identification of the ejecta deposit formed by the Australasian Tektite Event at Huai Om, northeastern ThailandOPEN ACCESS
Toshihiro Tada, Ryuji Tada, Paul A. Carling, Wickanet Songtham, Praphas Chansom, Toshihiro Kogure, Yu Chang, Eiichi Tajika MAPSVersion of Record online: 30 August 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Australasian Tektite Event, approximately 0.8 Ma,…
High precision multi-collector 40Ar/39Ar dating of moldavites (Central European tektites) reconciles geochrological and paleomagnetic data
Gianfranco Di Vincenzo Chemical GeologyIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 22 July 2022 LINK “Highlights • Moldavites are excellent material to be dated by the 40Ar/39Ar method.• 40Ar/39Ar data demonstrate an excellent intra- and inter-sample…
Tektites glasses from Belize, Central America: Petrography, geochemistry, and search for a possible meteoritic componentOPEN ACCESS
Christian Koeberl, Billy P. Glass, Toni Schulz, Wencke Wegner, Gabriele Giuli, Maria Rita Cicconi, Angela Trapananti, Paola Stabile, Mariangela Cestelli-Guidi, Jisun Park, Gregory F. Herzog, Marc W. Caffee Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof,…
Undetection of Australasian microtektites in the Chinese Loess PlateauOPEN ACCESS
Pan Yan, Zhiyong Xiao, Guoqiao Xiao, Qing Pan, Hejiu Hui, Yunhua Wu, Yizhen Ma, Yongjiang Xu Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585(4):110721Published: October 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Australasian strewn field of tektites and microtektites, formed by…
Isotopic evolution of planetary crusts by hypervelocity impacts evidenced by Fe in microtektitesOPEN ACCESS
S. M. Chernonozhkin, C. González de Vega, N. Artemieva, B. Soens, J. Belza, E. Bolea-Fernandez, M. Van Ginneken, B. P. Glass, L. Folco, M. J. Genge, Ph. Claeys, F. Vanhaecke & S. Goderis Nature Communications,…
The formation of impact coesiteOPEN ACCESS
F. Campanale, E. Mugnaioli, M. Gemmi & L. Folco Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 16011 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Coesite in impact rocks is traditionally considered a retrograde product formed during pressure…
Potassium elemental and isotope constraints on the formation of tektites and element loss during impacts
Tomáš Magna, Yun Jiang, Roman Skála, Kun Wang, Paolo A.Sossi, Karel Žák Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 28 July 2021 LINK “Potassium elemental and isotope systematics were investigated for a suite of central European tektites…
The unique spectral and geomorphological characteristics of pitted impact deposits associated with Marcia crater on Vesta
T. Michalik, K.-D. Matz, S.E. Schröder, R. Jaumann, K. Stephan, K. Krohn, F. Preusker, C.A. Raymond, C.T. Russell, K.A. Otto IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 27 July 2021 LINK “Highlights • Pitted impact deposits…
Constraints on the origins of iron silicide spherules in ultrahigh-temperature distal impact ejectaOPEN ACCESS
Sergei Batovrin, Boris Lipovsky, Yury Gulbin, Yury Pushkarev, Yury A. Shukolyukov Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 19 July 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Terrestrially occurring iron silicide spherules, described in the geological…
Revisiting the paleomagnetism of Muong Nong layered tektites: Implications for their formation processOPEN ACCESS
Jérôme Gattacceca, Pierre Rochette, Yoann Quesnel, Sounthone Singsoupho, Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 09 July 2021 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Submitted: 22 October 2021 “Among Australasian tektites, the so-called Muong Nong tektites stand…
A 650 km2 Miocene strewnfield of splash-form impact glasses in the Atacama Desert, ChileOPEN ACCESS
J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, J.-A. Barrat, P. Rochette, M.L. Balestrier, G. Bigazzi, G. Ménard, F. Moustard, E. Dos Santos, R. Scorzelli, M. Valenzuela, M. Gounelle, V. Debaille, P. Beck, L.Bonal, B. Reynard, M. Warner Earth…
57Fe Mössbauer Analysis of Meteorites and TektitesOPEN ACCESS
Benilde F.O. Costa, Eduardo Ivo Alves, Pedro A.O.C. Silva and António C. Batista ReviewMinerals 2021, 11(6), 628Published: 12 June 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (download) “This review presents studies on iron meteorites (Campo del Cielo fall…
Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pleistocene Pantasma impact crater in NicaraguaOPEN ACCESS
Pierre Rochette, Pierre Beck, Martin Bizzarro, Régis Braucher, Jean Cornec, Vinciane Debaille, Bertrand Devouard, Jérôme Gattacceca, Fred Jourdan, Fabien Moustard, Frédéric Moynier, Sébastien Nomade & Bruno Reynard Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 2, Article number:…
Microtektites and glassy cosmic spherules from new sites in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
Lauren E. Brase, Ralph Harvey, Luigi Folco, Martin D. Suttle, E. Carrie McIntosh, James M. D. Day, Catherine M. Corrigan Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 12 April 2021 LINK “We report on the…
Multi-collector 40Ar/39Ar dating of microtektites from Transantarctic Mountains (Antarctica): a definitive link with the Australasian tektite/microtektite strewn field
Gianfranco Di Vincenzo, Luigi Folco, Martin D.Suttle, Lauren Brase, Ralph P. Harvey Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Available online 5 February 2021 LINK “Microtektites represent high-velocity/distal meteorite impact ejecta. Demonstrating that microtektites found at several locations…
Australasian microtektites across the Antarctic continent: Evidence from the Sør Rondane Mountain range (East Antarctica)OPEN ACCESS
Bastien Soens, Matthias van Ginneken, Steven Goderis Geoscience FrontiersAvailable online 2 February 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Discovery of microtektites (n = 33) on the eastern Antarctic continent.• Physicochemical properties consistent with the Australasian strewn field.•…
New fission-track ages of australasian tektites define two age groups: Discriminating between formation and reset ages
John A. Westgate, Bradley J. Pillans, Brent V. Alloway, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Peter Simmonds Quaternary GeochronologyAvailable online 27 November 2020 LINK “Highlights • The studied tektites from across the Australasian strewn field fall into two…
3D X-ray tomographic analysis reveals how coesite is preserved in Muong Nong-type tektitesOPEN ACCESS
Matteo Masotta, Stefano Peres, Luigi Folco, Lucia Mancini, Pierre Rochette, Billy P. Glass, Fabrizio Campanale, Nicolas Gueninchault, Francesco Radica, Sounthone Singsoupho & Enrique Navarro Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 20608 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF…
In situ occurrence of Muong Nong-type Australasian tektite fragments from the Quaternary deposits near Huai Om, northeastern ThailandOPEN ACCESS
Toshihiro Tada, Ryuji Tada, Praphas Chansom, Wickanet Songtham, Paul A. Carling & Eiichi Tajika Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Volume 7, Article number: 66 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “There are several reports…
A scheme for moldavite fluvial abrasion based on observations from a natural river stream
Tomasz Brachaniec Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:10 October 2020 LINK “Tektite resistance to fluvial abrasion has become the core issue of several recent papers. Because of contradictory results of barrel observations, the experiment…
Sr-Nd-Pb isotope systematics of Australasian tektites: Implications for the nature and composition of target materials and possible volatile loss of Pb
Lukáš Ackerman, Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Jan Rejšek, Šárka Křížová, Josh Wimpenny, Tomáš Magna Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta LINK “The Australasian tektite (AAT) strewn field is the largest strewn field on the Earth with about…
Neutron activation analysis of meteorites at the VR-1 training reactor
Milan Stefanik, Martin Cesnek, Lubomir Sklenka, Tomas Kmjec, Marcel Miglierini Radiation Physics and Chemistry Volume 171, June 2020, 108675 LINK “Highlights • Applications of nuclear analytical techniques. • Neutron activation analysis and gamma-spectrometry in interdisciplinary…
Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern LaosOPEN ACCESS
Kerry Sieh, Jason Herrin, Brian Jicha, Dayana Schonwalder Angel, James D. P. Moore, Paramesh Banerjee, Weerachat Wiwegwin, Vanpheng Sihavong, Brad Singer, Tawachai Chualaowanich, and Punya Charusiri PNAS first published December 30, 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Evidence for subsolidus quartz-coesite transformation in impact ejecta from the Australasian tektite strewn fieldOPEN ACCESS
Fabrizio Campanale, Enrico Mugnaioli, Luigi Folco, Mauro Gemmi, Martin R.Lee, Luke Daly, Billy P.Glass Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 21 August 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • SEM and μRaman…
Ultraprecise age and formation temperature of the Australasian tektites constrained by 40Ar/39Ar analyses
Fred Jourdan, Sebastien Nomade, Michael T. D. Wingate, Ela Eroglu, Al Deino Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 29 May 2019 LINK “The Australasian tektites are quench melt glass ejecta particles distributed over the Asian,…
Australites. Part 2: early Aboriginal perception and useOPEN ACCESS
Philip A. Clarke JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE, 22 (1), 155-178 (2019) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This paper reviews the Indigenous perception and use of australites as recorded in the Australian ethnographic literature. Aboriginal people…
Australites. Part 1: Aboriginal involvement in their discoveryOPEN ACCESS
Philip A. Clarke JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE, 21 (2&3), 115-133 (2018) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “European scholars first believed that australites had been formed either volcanically or through lightning strikes, but they later recognised…
A new type of highly-vaporized microtektite from the Transantarctic MountainsOPEN ACCESS
M. Van Ginneken, M.J. Genge, R.P. Harvey Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 6 March 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report on the discovery of microtektites (microscopic impact…
An experimental model for the tektite fluvial transport based on the most distal Polish moldavite occurrences
Brachaniec, T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13035 LINK “Reworking and redeposition of tektites is a highly complex and multistage geological process including many factors. A tumbling experiment was therefore undertaken with the aim of…
New clues from Earth’s most elusive impact crater: Evidence of reidite in Australasian tektites from Thailand
Aaron J. Cavosie; Nicholas E. Timms; Timmons M. Erickson; Christian Koeberl Geology (2017) https://doi.org/10.1130/G39711.1 Published:December 20, 2017 LINK “Australasian tektites are enigmatic drops of siliceous impact melt found in an ~8000 × ~13,000 km strewn…
Australasian microtektites: Impactor identification using Cr, Co and Ni ratios
L. Folco, B.P. Glass, M. D’Orazio, P. Rochette Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 November 2017 LINK “Impactor identification is one of the challenges of large-scale impact cratering studies due…
Hydrocode modeling of the spallation process during hypervelocity impacts: Implications for the ejection of Martian meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Kosuke Kurosawa, Takaya Okamoto, Hidenori Genda accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hypervelocity ejection of material by impact spallation is considered a plausible mechanism for material exchange between two planetary bodies. We have…
On the Nature of the Ni-rich Component in Splash-form Australasian Tektites
Steven Goderis, Roald Tagle, Jörg Fritz, Rainer Bartoschewitz, Natalia Artemieva Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 August 2017 LINK “The Australasian tektite strewn field is exceptional, not only as the…
Implications for behavior of volatile elements during impacts—Zinc and copper systematics in sediments from the Ries impact structure and central European tektites.
Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Kato, C., Savage, P. S., Moynier, F., Skála, R. and Ježek, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12922 LINK “Moldavites are tektites genetically related to the Ries impact structure,…
New insights on petrography and geochemistry of impactites from the Lonar crater, India.
Ray, D., Upadhyay, D., Misra, S., Newsom, H. E. and Ghosh, S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12881 LINK “The Lonar impact crater, India, is one of the few known terrestrial impact craters excavated in…
The behavior of osmium and other siderophile elements during impacts: Insights from the Ries impact structure and central European tektites
Lukáš Ackerman, Tomáš Magna, Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Šárka Jonášová, Jiří Mizera, Zdeněk Řanda Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 April 2017 LINK “Impact processes are natural phenomena that contribute…
Cathodoluminescence of moldavites.
Fritzke, B., Götze, J. and Lange, J.-M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12852 LINK “A systematic study of a large set of moldavites and the application of cathodoluminescence (CL)-spectroscopy with a detailed discussion of spectral…
Impact ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
Morgan F. Schaller, Megan K. Fung, James D. Wright, Miriam E. Katz, Dennis V. Kent Science 14 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6309, pp. 225-229 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5466 LINK “Extraterrestrial impacts have left a substantial imprint…
The fate of moderately volatile elements in impact events—Lithium connection between the Ries sediments and central European tektites.
Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Skála, R., Brachaniec, T. and Visscher, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12733 Version of Record online: 3 OCT 2016 LINK “Lithium abundances and isotope compositions are presented for…