On the Origin of the Tektites
作者:
Lincoln Paz,
期刊:
Contributions of the Society for Research on Meteorites
(WILEY Available online 1944)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 10
页码: 137-141
ISSN:0096-2813
年代: 1944
DOI:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1944.tb00027.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThe conclusion that tektite falls were restricted in time to an earlier era in Earth history is supported by all known facts, in particular, by the results of critical examinations of various reported falls, including 2 australite falls described not long ago by the late Dr. E. S. Simpson. On the contrary, if the tektites originate as “lunar impactites,” as Dr. H. H. Nininger has recently suggested, it seems evident that they would have continued to fall onto the Earth right up to the present time. Furthermore, the probability that the distribution of “lunar impactite” falls over the Earth's surface would exhibit the alinement along 3 great circles, which is characteristic of all known tektite deposits, is vanishingl
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