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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...
- 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...
- borehole was cored continuously, p****ing through 100 meters (330 ft) of impactites. Three fully-cored boreholes were also drilled by the Comisión Federal...
- Atacama desert gl**** is an impactite found in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The event was approximately 12,000 years ago; traces of chondrites suggest...
- at the boundary between the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods. There are impactite rocks in the southwestern region from the crater confirming its extraterrestrial...
- materials and are generated by lightning striking sediments such as sand. Impactite, a material similar to trinitite, can be formed by meteor impacts. The...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...