Be-10 in Australasian microtektites compared to tektites: Size and geographic controls

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Rochette, Philippe, Braucher, R., Folco, L., Horng, C. S., Aumaître, G., Bourlès, Didier, Keddadouche, K.
• Other Authors: Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Academia Sinica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: badain jaran desert; geomagnetic reversal; constraints; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Jaran; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02621322; https://doi.org/10.1130/G46156Y.1

International audience In his welcome commentary on our paper (Rochette et al. 2018), Mizera (2019) challenges our preferred interpretation for the Australasian tektite (AAT) source: soil-covered old continental sediments, i.e., 10Be-rich onto 10Be-poor material. Blum et al.’s (1992) analysis of Sr...