Hello all, Norm wrote:
"Also, particularly with the "onion" type of splatted tear, there is usually a marked contrast between an unpitted, stretched upper surface and a deeply pitted base. The latter resembles the texture of molten metal poured onto a very wet surface, where the resulting steam pockets pit the base. I've often wondered if this is a clue that tektites fell during a very widespread rainy (monsoon) season when most of southeast Asia was wet. This might also help to explain why we never see anything embedded in the impact surface of a plastic tektite."
I collect the onion tektites and have always found those of interest also Norm. (I think I even got a few of mine from you a few years ago.)
Another interesting version of the onion tektite, are ones with completely flat, planar flat, bottom. As if they landed like a Hersey Kiss, still partly soft, and then solidified. Mind you, the physics on such seems impossible. (If these tektites fell from the upper atmosphere.)
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