Australia's Little Space Travellers : the Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world's finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author McColl, Don (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Popular works.
Mineralogy.
Planetary science.
Astrophysics.
Earth (Planet)
Geology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319460529
9783319460512
Physical Description1 online resource (XV, 64 pages 74 illustrations, 56 illustrations in color.) : online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and History
  • Theories of Tektite Origin
  • The True Origin of the Australian Tektites
  • Where are Tektites Found in Australia?
  • Primary Shapes of the Australian Tektites
  • Flight Shaping of Australian Tektites
  • The Classical Flanged Buttons
  • Elongate Flanged Forms
  • Miniature Flanged Forms
  • Microtektites
  • Hollow tektites
  • Asymmetric Flanged Form.-s Fragmentation of Flanged Forms
  • References.

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