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 +…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Mid-Infrared Bi-directional Reflectance Spectroscopy of Impact Melt Glasses and Tektites
Andreas Morlok, Aleksandra Stojic, Iris Weber, Harald Hiesinger, Michael Zanetti, Joern Helbert Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 June 2016 LINK “We have analyzed 14 impact melt glass samples, covering the compositional range…
Coeval ages of Australasian, Central American and Western Canadian tektites reveal multiple impacts 790 ka ago
Winfried H. Schwarz, Mario Trieloff, Klemens Bollinger, Niklas Gantert, Vera A. Fernandes, Hans-Peter Meyer, Hal Povenmire, Elmar K. Jessberger, Massimo Guglielmino, Christian Koeberl Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 February…
Chemistry of Tertiary sediments in the surroundings of the Ries impact structure and moldavite formation revisited
Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Zdeněk Řanda, Jiří Mizera, Kurt Heissig, Lukáš Ackerman, Jana Ďurišová, Šárka Jonášová, Jan Kameník, Tomáš Magna Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.025 LINK
Two new discovery of parautochthonous moldavites in southwestern Poland, Central Europe
Brachaniec, T., Szopa, K. and Karwowski, Ł. (2015), Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12504 LINK
