They are differentiated based on composition.  They can (and do) look the same.
(From L. Elkins, our resident tektite expert).


At 02:18 PM 4/5/2002 -0600, Treiman, Allan wrote:
>A further question --
>
>   How can you tell one kind of tektite from another?
>Say an australite from a bediasite from a small
>indochinite?
>
>   Allan

Steven Singletary
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Dept. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
M.I.T.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel - 617.253.6398
Fax - 617.253.7102


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