[meteorite-list] Great Buttons!

From: Aubrey Whymark <tinbider_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:12:49 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <93252.20175.qm_at_web28501.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Brian and List

Congrats on the tektite hunting.

I'd say it's worth strip-mining South America to find out if there are any Chesapeake origin tektite buttons! Western Mexico is really on the limits for flange formation and probably would be too close. Peru is potentially a very good country to start looking for distal tektites, focusing on the late Eocene marine sediments (or younger on the off-chance of reworking). Small obsidian-like tektites might have been overlooked in a volcanic-rich country. Brazil might also be a possibility. It will, however, take some special circumstances to preserve small tektites and more so to retain the flange, marine deposited sediments are probably the best bet.

Aubrey



--- On Mon, 28/6/10, brian burrer <brimane at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: brian burrer <brimane at gmail.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Great Buttons!
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, 28 June, 2010, 22:28
> I found my fifth largest bediasite on
> Friday- I now have found seven
> hundred and fifty four but I was more impressed with that
> set of three
> australites than my own sixty three gram find.?
> Congratulations to the
> finders!? Could it possible that flanged tektites from
> the North
> American event exist further downrange in Mexico or Central
> America?
>
> Cheers, Brian
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