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Impactite is rock
created or
modified by one or more
impacts of a meteorite.
Impactites are
considered metamorphic rock,
because their source materials...
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Libyan desert gl**** or
Great Sand Sea gl**** is an
impactite, made
mostly of lechatelierite,
found in
areas in the
eastern Sahara, in the
deserts of eastern...
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Atacama desert gl**** is an
impactite found in the
Atacama Desert in Chile. The
event was
approximately 12000
years ago;
traces of
chondrites suggest a...
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borehole was
cored continuously, p****ing
through 100
meters (330 ft) of
impactites.
Three fully-cored
boreholes were also
drilled by the Comisión Federal...
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content formed when
felsic lava
extruded from a
volcano cools rapidly.
Impactite is a form of gl****
formed by the
impact of a meteorite,
where Moldavite...
- "Insta-Rock" or "
impactite", a bleached-white, co****ly-laminar sandstone-look-alike, and was
littered with
black gl**** slag and pellets. The
impactite featured...
- man-made form:
fulgurite is sand
fused by a
lightning bolt
hitting sand.
Impactite such as
tektite is sand
fused by the
compressive heat of a
meteor strike...
- He also
conducted a wide
range of
research at the crater,
discovering impactite, iron-nickel
spherules related to the
impact and
vaporization of the asteroid...
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There is no
doubt that
there is
impact material in the form of gl****y
impactite and
shocked quartz in the Río
Cuarto structures. The age of this material...
- 1980. She
suggested that the
Black Stone may be a gl**** fragment, or
impactite, from the
impact of a
fragmented meteorite that fell 6,000
years ago at...
