splash-form tektite
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composition of tektites
- In tektite: Form and markings
Splash-form tektites have shapes like the microtektites but are about one million times as massive. Spheres (the majority), oblate spheroids, and a few dumbbells, teardrops, disks, and cylinders are found. Splash-form tektites are always marked by corrosion. The two most common kinds of corrosion are…
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