10Be in Australasian microtektites compared to tektites: Size and geographic controls
High 10Be contents in tektites reported in literature are taken as evidence of a source material, melted at the impact site, enriched in atmospheric 10Be; i.e., a soil or sediment. In 0.8 Ma Australasian tektites, 10Be content increases with distance from the putative impact location in Indochina, w...
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ftunivpisairis:oai:arpi.unipi.it:11568/928454 2024-04-14T08:04:03+00:00 10Be in Australasian microtektites compared to tektites: Size and geographic controls P. Rochette R. Braucher L. Folco C. S. Horng G. Aumaître D. L. Bourlès K. Keddadouche Rochette, P. Braucher, R. Folco, L. Horng, C. S. Aumaître, G. Bourlès, D. L. Keddadouche, K. 2018 STAMPA http://hdl.handle.net/11568/928454 https://doi.org/10.1130/G45038.1 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/46/9/803/545183/10Be-in-Australasian-microtektites-compared-to eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000442904600019 volume:46 firstpage:803 lastpage:806 numberofpages:4 journal:GEOLOGY http://hdl.handle.net/11568/928454 doi:10.1130/G45038.1 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85054133486 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/46/9/803/545183/10Be-in-Australasian-microtektites-compared-to info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftunivpisairis https://doi.org/10.1130/G45038.1 2024-03-21T19:02:25Z High 10Be contents in tektites reported in literature are taken as evidence of a source material, melted at the impact site, enriched in atmospheric 10Be; i.e., a soil or sediment. In 0.8 Ma Australasian tektites, 10Be content increases with distance from the putative impact location in Indochina, with geographic averages from 69 × 106 atoms/g (Indochina) to 136 × 106 atoms/g (Australia). Here we report, for the first time, 10Be contents in microtektites collected from Antarctica and the South China Sea. We show that microtektites are ~30 × 106 atoms/g richer in 10Be than tektites from the same geographic areas. Antarctic microtektites, with an average 10Be content of 184 × 106 atoms/g after correction for in situ production, are the richest impact glass ever measured. The simplest explanation for such systematic size and geographic trends is that the source depth of the melt within the target surface decreases with ejection velocity. Indeed, higher initial kinetic energy implies higher launch distances and higher fragmentation of the ejecta. Antarctic microtektite source depth may tentatively be restricted to the upper tens of centimeters at the impact site. Alternative models invoking a marine or loessic sediment source, or a secondary enrichment in the microtektite (either by atmospheric scavenging, selective fractionation by volatilization, or post-depositional contamination) fail to reproduce the observed relationships. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica ARPI - Archivio della Ricerca dell'Università di Pisa Antarctic Geology 46 9 803 806 |
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High 10Be contents in tektites reported in literature are taken as evidence of a source material, melted at the impact site, enriched in atmospheric 10Be; i.e., a soil or sediment. In 0.8 Ma Australasian tektites, 10Be content increases with distance from the putative impact location in Indochina, with geographic averages from 69 × 106 atoms/g (Indochina) to 136 × 106 atoms/g (Australia). Here we report, for the first time, 10Be contents in microtektites collected from Antarctica and the South China Sea. We show that microtektites are ~30 × 106 atoms/g richer in 10Be than tektites from the same geographic areas. Antarctic microtektites, with an average 10Be content of 184 × 106 atoms/g after correction for in situ production, are the richest impact glass ever measured. The simplest explanation for such systematic size and geographic trends is that the source depth of the melt within the target surface decreases with ejection velocity. Indeed, higher initial kinetic energy implies higher launch distances and higher fragmentation of the ejecta. Antarctic microtektite source depth may tentatively be restricted to the upper tens of centimeters at the impact site. Alternative models invoking a marine or loessic sediment source, or a secondary enrichment in the microtektite (either by atmospheric scavenging, selective fractionation by volatilization, or post-depositional contamination) fail to reproduce the observed relationships. |
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10Be in Australasian microtektites compared to tektites: Size and geographic controls |
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