Tektites and Impact glasses

K/T ejecta layer with impact glass at the Beloc, Haiti locality.
(Locality B, alongside the road from Beloc to Jacmel)
 

Australasian tektites

Ivory coast Tektites

Lybian desert glass
Moldavites
North American tektites
K/T boundary tektites (impact glass)
Click on a region to find K/T boundary tektites or microkrystites from that region

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bubbel in tektieten
Two examples of Zero gravity. On the right dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers in the ISS space station experimenting with a floating bleb of water in which he injected a bubble of air. On the left a K-Pg tektite from Beloc, Haiti. The image left is proof that the tektite was melted, ejected out of the atmosphere and solidified in space in free fall (=zero gravity) outside the atmosphere, before it re-entered the atmpshere. The air-pressure in the bubble is practically zero, same as the environment where it solidified. (see experiment)