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Indochinite Tektite Meteorite Impact Glass Formations These tektites have been tumbled and polished Weight: 67.36 Gram Lot The tektites in the pictures are the ones you will receive
Indochinite Tektites are solidified rock, which were fired
into the Earth's upper atmosphere by a meteorite impact and subsequently cooled
to form the distinctive glass-like structure. Indochinite Tektites are
distinctly dark black in contrast to the green of European Moldavite Tektites.
It is estimated that these bodies of solidified magma are 700,000 years old.
Indochinite tektites, as the name suggests, are found in the Indochinese
peninsula, from Australia and the Pacific islands of Micronesia in the east and
south, to China and Indonesia in the north and west. The largest indochinite
was a Muong-Nong type tektite (which are layered tektites), which had a mass of
29.0 kg. |