Here
comes
Here
comes
the reference book on
tektites,
finally: 16 x 24 cm; plastified softcover; 220 pages; 111 b/w and
40 colour photographs;
bibliography
with over 600 entries
Index: -Preface -Natural
glasses-witnesses of catastrophic events
-Of tektites and humans -'A' like
australites to 'V' like vltavin
-150 years of theories -Impact
craters
on Earth
-Tektite formation-a general process or an
exception?
-One material-four shapes
-Microtektites -Physical properties
-Tektite sculpture -A question of
age
-Water content -The fluorine-boron
thermometer
-Heavy noble gases -Track hunting
-The radionuclide 10-Be testifies -The
triumph of the impact theory
-Moldavites, Central European tektites
-Ivory Coast tektites
-North American tektites -The
Australasian
strewn field
-Asian tektites -Australites
-Tektite finding problems...from Don
McColl
-The fourth crater
-Urengoites, South Ural glasses and glasses from
Tikal -Libyan Desert glass
-Impact glasses from Zhamanshin crater
-Aouelloul glass
-Darwin glass -The pearls of al'Ad
-Fossil tektites -Impact physics
constraints... from H.J. Melosh
-The solution??? -Glossary
-Of tektites and scientists
-Useful addresses
-Appendix -Gallery
