 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TEKTITES FROM TEXAS By RICHARD WRIGHT Rt. 1, Box 165 A, Magnolia, Texas I eased the car off on the shoulder...translucent green color inside I was positive it was a tektite. This may sound as if finding tektites is simple...speak of is Grimes County, Texas and I live some sixty miles south in Montgomery County. I obtained a...a book on Texas rock locations which showed the area around Bedies, Texas to be one of the locations...locations in Texas where tektites had been found. After learning what I could about tektites. or "fire pearls" |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 9-14 (1997) 0 Meteontical Society, 1997. Printed in USA. Krypton and xenon fractionation in North American...Huntsville, Texas 77341 -2267, USA 2Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255...77843-3255, USA "Institute of Geochemistry, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Viennz, Austria...bediasites and 2 georgiaites) and one Ivory Coast tektite. Radiogenically produced 4He may explain the large...enormous 20Ne/36Ar enrichments observed in all tektite samples, similar to those reported from other tektites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | only one tektite has ever been measured. SIGAMONY (1944) measured the susceptibility of a tektite from Billiton...Indo-China Texas Texas Same as above except heated to 1450Ā°C Eastern portion, Lee County, Texas h-ear Bedias...Bedias, Grimes County, Texas Near Muldoon, Fayette County, Texas Near Bedias, Grimes County, Texas Australia...designated. t Considered by some not to be B true tektite. $ Impactite. thoroughly washed and dried, they...ecmeotherglasses and are discussed below in some detail. The tektite and obsidian data are summarized in Fig. 1. Nest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1990) Ā© Meteoritical Society, 1990. Printed in USA Tektite research 1936-1990* VIRGIL E. BARNES Bureau...The University of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713-7508, USA (Received 21 February...farm 23 May 1990) ;\bstract-~if~y-odd years of tektite research are reviewed, proceeding from the discovery...earthly materials was ignored so long by most tektite researchers, until it was found that the Moon rocks...participation in tektite investigations, it does not attempt to cover all facets of tektite research. For |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | temperatures adequate for this purpose. The study of the tektite glasses is therefore another avenue of approach...AND METHOD The spectral transmittances of the tektite glasses in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared...from near Muldoun, Fayette County; No. 4 from eatearn portion of Lee County; andTts;ib, 6c, snd 6d from...from near Bedies. Orimee County, I- 80- 5 rop ā 60- d z 50- : Is 40- āp30d c 20. 9 00 380 ...comparison between the infrared transmittances of the tektite glasses and that of a number of industrial welding |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1991) Ā© Meteoritical Society, 1991. Printed in USA Anomalous N e enrichments in tektites KAyO MATSUBARA'...that the 2Ā°Nej36Ar ratio reported for a Thailand tektite (Hennecke et al., 1975) is the highest among those...strewn fields. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND RESULTS Tektite samples used in this study and their locations...CO 2++, H,"O and ,oAr++ is negligible. For all tektite samples, the Ne isotopic compositions are atmospheric...four times higher than the 1800 of a Thailand tektite (Hennecke et al., 1975). Noble gas abundance patterns |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bureau of E. BARNES Geology, The University of Texas, Austin Economic Abstract--Normal indochinites...examination of 288 plates cut from as many specimens. Tektite characteristics in two other strewn-fields examined...turn of the century when Franz Suess systematized tektite research, tāektite investigators have been aware...interpretation of tektite origin. Equally important in the interpretation of tektite origin are the variations...paper on this subject at the Second International Tektite Symposium did not include t#he material obtained |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chesapeake Bay impact structure and the North American tektite strewn field: The Sr-Nd isotopic evidence Alexander...Artemieva (2002), the most favorable conditions for tektite production are impact angles between 30 and 50Ā°;...characteristic feature of tektites. At present, four tektite strewn fields are known, i.e., 1) the Australasian...extent of the regional distribution of these ātektite-likeā objects is unknown due to the low number...689 Ā© The Meteoritical Society, 2006. Printed in USA. 690 A. Deutsch and C. Koeberl Fig. 1. The global |  | | Report (issue) | | Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director Report of Investigations ā No. 42 Texas Gemstones...OFECONOMIC GEOLOGY The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director ā...ā No. 42 Report of Investigations Texas Gemstones By Elbert A. King, Jr. February 1961 ā ā ā Second...gemstones Cabochon gems Faceted gems Tumbled gems Texas gemstones Amber Augite Beryl Celestite Diamond Epidote...Opal _ Pearl Quartz Chalcedony Sanidine Spinel Tektite (bediasite) _ 19 19 19 20 20 21 22 22 23 23 |  | Magna, T., Deutsch, A., Mezger, K., SkĆ”la, R., Seitz, H.-M., Mizera, J., Åanda, Z., Adolph, L. (2011) Lithium in tektites and impact glasses: Implications for sources, histories and large impacts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (8) 2137-2158 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.01.032 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Artemieva et al., 2002; Artemieva, 2008). The tektite material is ejected from the source crater in the...ļ¬elds far from the point of origin. Four major tektite strewn ļ¬elds are known at present, (i) the 0.8...extent of the regional distribution of these ātektite-likeā objects is unknown due to the limited number...yielded a set of most favorable conditions for tektite production at low impact angles between 30Ā° and...and Boslough and Crawford (2008). Tektites and tektite-like glasses are highly interesting objects to |  | | Book (edition) | | W r CRYSTALS NOT PISTOLS S'- GEM TRAILS OF TEXAS 1 A Field Guide for Collectors By Bessie W. Simpson...GEM TRAILS PUBLISHING CO. P. O. Box 828 Bowie, Texas 76230 ! Copyright 1958; 1962; 1967 Bessie W. Simpson.............. New Collecting Areas as you Travel Texas. SECTION I 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19........... TopazāMason County ................... Mineral SpecimensāLlano County. Llanite ...............Limestone ....................... FossilsāMason County ................... SECTION III _____ ........ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3. Tektite des chinesisch-australischen Raumes mit den Verhaltnissen von 0.37-0.29. 4. Tektite aus...aus Lee County und Grimes County in Texas mit den niedrigen Verhaltnissen, die kaum 0.25 tiberschreiten |  | | Journal (issue) | | Armory Dixie Hwy. January 22-23-Fredericksburg, Texas-Pioneer Pavilion Lady Bird Johnson Pk. January 29-30-Santa...95 PPD USA Medium Flow............... $7.95 PPD USA Hard Flow .................... $7 .95 PPD USA COMPLETE...COMPLETE POSTPAID USA... $21.95 We accept your BankAmerlcard or Master Charge, please send your card no... WALL HANGER AND MOUNTING HARDWARE, POSTPAID IN USA. WHOLESALE QUANTITY PRICES AVAILABLE. TRANSISTOR...MINERALS - 45 Bediasite recovered from Grimes County, Texas, near Bedias. ā¢ {'(] .... their origin |  | | Report (issue) | | - --- -*---,-- The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas .-. -:. - . *- < ,... z,-= 4...GEOLOGY The University of Texas at Austin RESEARCH AND PUBLIC SERVICE IN TEXAS RESOURCES AND GEOLOGY Energy...Generaling Station near Fairfield in Freestone County, Texas. Courtesy of rtas Utilities Services, *., ...Economic Geology The University of Texas a t Austin Austin, Texas W. 1. Fisher, Director RESEARCH AND...in 1909 as the successor to the Texas Geological Survey and the Texas Mineral Survey, is a research entity |  | | Journal (issue) | | by Anne Black Meteorite of the Month by Editor Tektite of the Month by Editor Terms Of Use Materials...display. Scattered around Los Angeles County are some very nice and large Canyon Diablo irons...things in a museum like the NHM of Los Angeles County to have so much to cover that each area of interest...visited the Odessa, Texas crater and hunted dry lakes in the deserts between Texas and California. All...themselves with concocted newsletters from the Coconino County (Arizona) Jail (temporary home to a few noted meteorite |  | | Journal (issue) | | which they were found. Moldavite is the variety of tektite most commonly encountered by gemmologists, and...potassium-argon ages : the oldest are bediasites from Texas a n d Georgia (with two unique specimens attributed...bediasite comes from Bedias, a proper n a m e in Grimes County, Texas. T h e moldavites are the second oldest...the aerodynamicists. Any successful theory of tektite formation at the surface of the earth must resolve...definite site or sites related to the Australasian tektite strewnfields is evidence that the origin of tektites |  | | Book | | CB 2 1RP 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA 296 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne 3206...strewnfields and mass of microtektites 162 Other tektite-like glasses (Pseudotektites) 163 Americanites...versus terrestrial origin 167 Parent material 168 Tektite source craters 169 Problems with a terrestrial...structures caused Fig. 4.4. Photograph of the Bennett County hexahedrite. The fine parallel lines or striations...meteorite was the Norton County meteorite that fell in Kansas in 1948. The Norton County stone weighs about |  | | Book | | amber, coals, bitumens, natural glass (obsidian, tektite), and others. Substances that fulfill all the requirements...monzonite (Monzoni, Tyrolean Alps), nelsonite (Nelson County, Virginia), nevadite, norite (Norway), pacificite... 1980. Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks. Austin, Texas: Hemphill Publishing. Grabau, Amadeus W. 1904. On...meteorite migmatite plutonic sedimentary rock tektite The terms listed above are defined either in the...Also named albert coal. [Albert shale of Albert County, New Brunswick] (How in 1860) albitite ig. dike |  | | Book | | geological exploration of space. Elbert King Houston, Texas Elbert A. King is Professor of Geology at the...M.A. degrees in geology from The University of Texas. Contents 1, Meteorites INTRODUCTION STONY METEORITES...INTRODUCTION 95 METEOR CRATER, ARIZONA 98 ODESSA CRATERS, TEXAS 102 HAVILAND CRATER, KANSAS 103 THE CANADIAN CRATERS...dimension is approximately 45 cm. (University of Texas collection.) 8 METEORITES Figure 3 Some of the...Juvinas, France Kendall County, Texas Khairpur, Pakistan Mincy, Missouri Moore County, North Carolina Morristown |  | | Book | | stones which fell from the atĀ mosphere, in the County of Fairfield, and State of ConnectĀ icut, on the...analysis oT a meteoric stone which fell in the county of Tipperary, in Ireland, in the month of August...of a shower of meteoric stones which fell in the county of Limerick. Phil. Mag. 5 1, 3 55-58 ( 1 8 1 8...a meteoric stone which fell near Adair, in the County of Limerick on September 10, 18 13. Trans. Roy...7, 668 (1838) 1838-C-2 Cox, R. Meteoric iron in Texas (Statements contained in two letters of September |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | 1970 SURVEY SOCIETIES LIBRARY University of Texas At San Antonio The present version of the bibliography...direction of Dr. James W. Clarke, assisted by Wanda Lee Grimes and Wilna B. Wright. These were subsequently reviewed...Orleans, Louisiana 10 Rice University, Houston, Texas ' Wy oh - FOREWORD Preparation of this bibliography...Louisiana Anadarko Producing Company, Houston, Texas Consultant, Lafayette, Louisiana Superior Oil Company...Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas in the United Luis Potosi, States, and Nuevo Vera |  | | Book (edition) | | or more others (for example, Saratov, Washington County, Salem). In the past distinct falls with the same...0 17 1 6 19 0 env) a Jordan Lebanon 1 7 USA TSSeR: Venezuela Vietnam 0 1 8 15 0 0 I...Bagnone Benares (b) Bilibino Blue Tier Botetourt County Campo de Pucara (iron) Castray River Cleburne Clinton...Stockton Fujian Fukue Fuling Gerzeh Guadaloupe County Guangyuan Guin Guizhou Hatfield Hejing Holliday...Lafayette (iron) Laguna Manantiales * Lancaster County Landor Lasher Creek Las Salinas Lebedinnyi Lefroy |  | | Report (issue) | | 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...resources-Continued Rocky Mountain region-Continued Texas ...................................ā¢ Utah Pacific...cooperators .............................. . State, county, and local cooperators ................. . Other...raw materials in nature, Tintic district, Utah County, Utah, has confirmed the existto the development...molybdenum occurrences in the Badlands area, Pennington County, S. Dak., by R. U. King and W. H. Raymond has shown |  | | Book (volume) | | the Southern Gem and Mineral Company of El Paso, Texas. Information on the Virgin Valley opal deposits...L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...in the small cavities in limestone in Herkimer County, New York, only one quartz crystal may be found |  | | Report (volume) | | Contributions in Marine Science. The University of Texas, Marine Science Institute. Port Aransas, Tex. Contr...of Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science...Science. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Mus. Nat. History...History Quart.- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly. Los Angeles, Calif. Louisiana Water |
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