DarkSilicate Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 (edited) Here's a couple small tektites I found today in a local junque shop: One is 345.4 grams and the other is 392.1 grams. They had tags on them with a blue sticky substance like gum. I think they are Indochinite tektites. I suppose they traveled all the way from southeast Asia and ended up at the Tucson show where a local fellow bought them and then he carried them back to my little town here in southwestern Co where I bought them in his shop for $7.00 each. Shipping in this case wasn't too bad : ) Edited July 13, 2021 by DarkSilicate 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted July 18, 2021 Author Share Posted July 18, 2021 (edited) Since picking up the two impactites, I have been trying to narrow down where in the world they might have came from. I now believe they could be from Guangdong China area. They seem rather large in comparison to some I have found on the www. I sent a picture of them to MPOD. Edited July 18, 2021 by DarkSilicate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 Turns out Paul did not think they are tektites so I do need to have them tested to find out what they are. I appreciate him letting me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrock Bob Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 They look like merkanites. The surface does not look like a tektite to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 ok, I will bite, what's merkanites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotAU? Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 (edited) A friend unknowingly knapped a small birdpoint arrowhead from what turned out to be a glass tektite. It’s good to always have someone who knows these check before dong anything destructive with them! Edited July 19, 2021 by GotAU? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrock Bob Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 23 hours ago, DarkSilicate said: ok, I will bite, what's merkanites? It is an obsidian nodule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) A little update on these two stones...I visited with Dirk Ross about them. I sent him a few up-close pictures. After he had a chance to view the pictures, he said they could possibly be from China. We discussed the surface marks and the rock-like soil trapped in them in places. All indicators of tektites. Sort of confirms my suspicions that they could be Quangdong Indochinite tektites after all. Dirk suggested that I ask Blaine Reed to take a look at them. I don't want to bug him but if I run into him again at some point in time, I think I will visit with him about them too. Always interesting to talk with Blaine. Last time I ran into him in a local antique shop, he pulled a piece of the moon out of his pocket and handed it to me. Needless to say, I was "over the moon" about having held a piece of lunar rock. Edited October 13, 2021 by DarkSilicate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 7/18/2021 at 9:20 PM, DarkSilicate said: Turns out Paul did not think they are tektites so I do need to have them tested to find out what they are. I appreciate him letting me know. How do you test for tektites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 I still haven't found that out. I have read where there is some way they can be identified using XRF. Blaine has a gun. If I do get a chance to visit with him on them, maybe he will use it on them. Supposedly heat applied to the rock will tell if it is a tektite or something else. If not a tektite, I have been told that the stone will bubble. I'm not going to heat one though. The rock hard soil trapped in them in places is a good indicator for tektites. Could be from an impact about 700,000 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtimehermit Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 How do you know that brown color is soil? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 Don't for sure but under the low-power scope, it looks to have formed to the shape of the indentation in the stone. Looks like some type of sedimentary material that has hardened in place. Just my guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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