Loss and accretion of moderately volatile elements K and Na in Australasian microtektites from Antarctica
M. Del Rio, L. Folco, E. Mugnaioli, S. Goderis, M. Masotta Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 12 March 2025 LINK “Recent studies on alkali metals, Ar-, Fe- and K-isotope distribution in…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
