tektite


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thought to derive from meteorites

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UC Berkeley Professor Walter Alvarez was among the scientists asked to investigate whether the tiny glass beads found amid the site, were "tektites." The fish at the dig site were found preserved by what the scientists believe to be tektites - glass beads formed in the atmosphere from rock melted by the impact.
With five employees, I nurtured my startup company with painstaking attention and thoroughness, going door to door, trying to establish business contacts with my co-tenants in Tektite and the neighboring offices in Ortigas," she recalled.
Caption: Figure 4: (a) A recombination of selected spectral variables in Table 2 for the tektite sample; (b) PC1 loading plot; (c) PC2 loading plot; (d) PC3 loading plot.
And so began a 22-year search for more of the rocks that Mr Al Haddad calls "tektites," which are defined as small black glassy objects believed to have been formed as molten debris in meteorite impacts.
Called Chicxulub (cheek'-she-loob), the crater is thought to have been excavated by an object six miles across that threw into the atmosphere debris still found around the globe as glassy spheres or tektites, shocked quartz and a layer of iridium-enriched dust.
Impact of the 2005 coral bleaching event on Porites porites and Colpophyllia natans at Tektite Reef, US Virgin Islands Coral Reefs 26: 689-693.
Geological Survey, the deep drilling project examines the large impact structure, its association with the North American tektite strewn field, its relationship to other Eocene impact structures and materials, the implications of paleoclimate change, and its effects on the local area.
At the remote and scenic Lameshur Bay, large boulders form caves teeming with fish and the remains of Tektite, an underwater habitat for aquanauts occupied in 1969.
You can avoid nightmares by putting a piece of moss agate or tektite where you can easily touch it and if you need help to understand your dreams keep a double-terminated rock crystal close by your bed.
To out-premise these, by whatever tektite [magical object] whirl you've mastered, would be to make us hypothetical, a creature of our own pretending, as are you.
The federally sponsored Tektite Project, which helped pave the way for women to be included in the space program, enabled the researchers to study marine life continuously without having to surface.
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While no human remains were found with these slaughtered animals, the site dated to between 777 and 631,000 years ago yielded 57 stone tools and a piece of tektite, clear evidence of early man.
A Solomonic solution was eventually reached, with the PSE having offices and trading floors in both Makati and Ortigas (Tektite) , thanks to new technology which allowed an electronic link between the two trading floors so that there would be just one price for each stock at any given time.