North American strewn field - Impact Deposit

Alternate Names Bediasites, georgianites
Local Language
Coordinates 26° 7' 12" N; 75° 13' 48" W
Notes
  1. Bediasites and georgianites refer to tektites found in Texas and Georgia, respectively (Glass, 1990). Microtektites in this strewn field have been found in deep sea sediments (Glass and Wu, 1993)
Country United States of America

Related Countries :
  1. United States of America
Region Texas
Date Confirmed 1996
Notes
  1. Impact origin confirmed by Koeberl et al., 1996
Age (Ma) ~35.4
Notes :
  1. Glass et al., 1986; Koeberl et al., 1996

Method :
  1. 40Ar/39Ar
Impactor Type N/A

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Spherules
N/A
Tektites
N/A
Indivudual Glass Clasts
N/A
Source Crater
Chesapeake Bay
Geology
Deposited in upper Eocene sediments
  1. Glass, 1990
Other Shock Metamorphism
Shock mosaicism in quartz
  1. Koeberl et al., 1996
Shatter Cones
No
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
No
Diaplectic Glass
Yes
Coesite
No
  1. Glass and Wu, 1993
Stisovite
No
  1. Glass and Wu, 1993