[meteorite-list] impactite vs. impact glass

From: Starbits_at_aol.com <Starbits_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:49 2004
Message-ID: <1cd.575f8a7.2baaa0e2_at_aol.com>

In a message dated 3/19/2003 8:00:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com writes:

<< Other interesting images:
 
 http://www.mintek.ac.za/pubs/geobook/Impactglass.htm >>

Thanks Bob

    Interesting photo of the Tswaing Crater glass. The photo was by Uwe
Reimold who did the classification on the Thuathe meteorite.
    At the following URL is a proposed classification and nomenclature of
impactites. It specifically puts impact glasses and impact breccias in
different groupings, but aside from naming subgroups of each doesn't go into
the differences.

http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/min/forsch/classification.html

Eric Olson
http://www.star-bits.com
Received on Wed 19 Mar 2003 11:43:14 PM PST