Layered tektites of southeast Asia: Field studies in central Laos and Vietnam
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- 公開日
- 1999-09
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
- DOI
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- 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01388.x
- 公開者
- Wiley
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<jats:p><jats:bold>Abstract—</jats:bold> We have recovered 18 kg of layered tektites from 10 tektite‐bearing localities in Laos and central Vietnam, including 5 localities around the town of Muong Nong (Laos). Several of these deposits originally contained several hundred kilograms of layered tektite fragments, and one fragmented mass may have been as large as 1000 kg. This is the largest single deposit of tektites yet reported.</jats:p><jats:p>In this region, layered tektite fragments are found in isolated clusters usually associated with a pebbly laterite horizon that is 0–1 m below the surface. Near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, we estimate the abundance of layered tektite fragments to be ∼100 g/m<jats:sup>2</jats:sup>. This is greater than five times the abundance estimated for northeast Thailand (Fiske <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic>, 1996).</jats:p><jats:p>In a region that extends from northeast Thailand, through central Laos, and into central Vietnam, we found only layered tektites, which confirmed the existence of a large (>50 000 km<jats:sup>2</jats:sup>) subfield of the Australasian strewn field with only layered tektites. The east‐west extent of the “layered‐only” subfield is well constrained, but little field data exist to constrain its north‐south extent.</jats:p>
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- Meteoritics & Planetary Science
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34 (5), 757-761, 1999-09
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