Tektite Information

Over the last couple hundred years there have been dozens of theories proposed for Tektite origin. And though today that discussion is mostly settled, Tektites themselves remain among the most enigmatic of the rocks found on Earth. Tektite shapes and forms often defy our ability to really understand their individual creation.

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Tektite Testing
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 15, 2010 03:52:00 PM
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We get quite a few emails from people who think they've found a tektite. Jim wrote an article for our Meteorite-Times online magazine about tektite testing a few years ago. If you think you've found a tektite then please read this tektite article.

Tektite Lamp
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 4, 2010 01:40:00 PM
Views: 1650
Jim wrote a wonderful article in the August issue of Meteorite-Times Magazine about the Tektite Lamp he handcrafted out of Indochinite Tektite pieces from The Darryl Futrell Collection of Tektites.

Tektites – Out of this World Natural Glass
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:15:00 PM
Views: 856
Tektites are collected for their unique shapes and textures as natural oddities. They are glass. They are however, not glass like any other natural glass found on Earth. They form when asteroid hit the Earth and melt the rocks...

Tektite Shapes
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:11:00 PM
Views: 970
Take a large piece of rock moving very fast and slam it into the Earth and you can make a crater, release tremendous energy, and kill everything for miles around. But, you probably will not make tektites. These peculiar pieces of natural glass...