Tektites at the K/T boundary

Beloc, near Jacmel, Haiti

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The bubble in the middle of the tektite. It did not know where to go, so it stayed in the middle. That's typical behaviour for a bubble in zero gravity!

Strewnfields of tektites (impact glass droplets) and microkrystites at the K/T boundary, click on on the Gulf area to get a map of all the tektite localities!


Slab of the K/T ejecta layer near Beloc, Haiti.

(Locality B, alongside the road from Beloc to Jacmel)

slight enlargment, showing the impact glass fragments with internal bubbles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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