Beryllium-10 Study on the Origin of Tektites

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Thu May 29 12:52:31 EDT 2008

While looking for something else I came across an
interesting tektite study. It is;

Serefiddin, F., G. F. Herzog, and C. Koeberl, 2007,
Beryllium-10 concentrations of tektites from the
Ivory Coast and from Central Europe: Evidence for
near-surface residence of precursor materials.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. vol. 71, no. 6,
pp. 1574-1582 (March 15, 2007) doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.12.007

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they concluded:

"Although not definitive, consideration of several possible
cosmic-ray exposure histories suggests that about half the
interior 10Be has a meteoric origin, which if corrected to the
time of formation yields a concentration compatible with
those measured in typical contemporary soils. The observations
are consistent with the formation of three of the four main
tektite groups from surface soils or sediments."

Yours,

Paul H.