Occurrence, Distribution, and Age of Australian Tektites

Stratigraphic relations of australites in the Port Campbell Embayment, Victoria

“…This conclusion was supported by further stratigraphic investigations by Baker's colleague Edmund Gill (1965a,b, 1970. Moreover, field studies of the occurrence of australites elsewhere in Australia (Johnson, 1965;Lovering et al, 1972;Chalmers et al, 1976) led to the view held by other investigators that most or all australites have a similar young age.…”

The Last 15,000 Years: Climate-Controlled and “Rare-Event”-Triggered/Rise and Fall of Holocene Cultures in the Near/Middle East and in Central Europe—Evidence and Background

“…exposes an overwhelming accumulation of hazards: this is Hoyle's Comet [3], a series of acid events [13], evidence of tektites [17] [18], euxinic sapropelites in the Eastern Mediterranean indicating oxygen deficit [35], stop of glacier retreat in alpine regions [6], tektites in wood for dendrochronologic dating [19], the impact-event of Köfels, Austria [36], the step by step disappearance/extinction of large heavy-weighted Mammals and their robbery enemies [15], and finally the last Mammoth found in Siberia [16]; a compilation of these events around 9600 yr B.P. see [37].…”

“…As condensation/ melting products of impacting meteorites onto SiO 2 -rich surface sediments/ rocks exposed in the target area, tektites provide reliable impact event criteria [17] [18]. Their strewn fields may be localized far remote from the impact site, and not every impact originates tektites depending on the surface rock chemistry.…”

“…Age analysis relates to fission tracking and 40 K method [20]. Most relevant is the Austral-Asian strewn field (Australia, Indic Ocean, South China, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia) covering 50 Mio square kilometers, owning some 100 Mio tons only of microtektites [17] [18] and ranging in age in between ~10000-9545 ± 200 yr B.P. The latter age coincides with the age of tektites in wood analyzed by 14 C and/dendrochronological method [19].…”

“…• Tektites (rock glass originated by impacting), [17] [18]. Tektites in wood for precise dendrochronlogic dating [19].…”