Bediasite - Wikipedia
Bediasite is a form or type of tektite, which is a body of natural glass formed from earth debris during meteorite impact events. [1] It originates in an area in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas centered on the small town of Bedias which is 74 miles (119 km) north west of Houston. [2]
Tektites - TSHA
2001年1月1日 · Tektites are bits of natural glass formed on earth by the impact of meteorites or comets. They are mostly black; some are green or yellow. Most weigh less than 300 grams and are characterized by splash forms such as spheres, teardrops, dumbbells, disks, and rods, as well as layered forms.
Meteorites & Tektites | Jackson School Museum of Earth History
Tektites have been found in strewn fields and linked to impact crater events – https://www.tektites.info/strewnfields. The tektites known from Texas are called bediasites and they have been linked to an impact event forming the Chesapeake Crater.
Top 13 Places in the US to Find Tektites - rockchasing.com
2024年10月8日 · If you’re looking for tektites in the US? Some places are better than others because of something called the North American tektite strewn field. This large covers parts of Texas, Georgia, and a few other states. You can also see tektites in various museums across the country if you’re interested in these cool space rocks.
Bediasite catalog - Tektite Source
In a narrow central Texas belt, a few tektites have beaten the odds and both reached the present ground surface and remained there to be discovered. Most of our inventory was collected over a lifetime by a Texas roads department worker, who spent much of his career in the prime Bediasite hunting grounds in and around Grimes County.
Tektites | Jackson School Museum of Earth History
2024年9月27日 · Tektites are rounded, pitted bodies of silicate glass, nonvolcanic in origin, most likely derived by large hypervelocity meteorite collisions with terrestrial rocks.
Tektite - Wikipedia
Two splash-form tektites, molten terrestrial ejecta from a meteorite impact. Tektites (from Ancient Greek τηκτός (tēktós) 'molten') are gravel-sized bodies composed of black, green, brown or grey natural glass formed from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts.
Bedias, TX - TSHA
2023年9月20日 · The community was named for the Bidai Indians, whose Caddo name means "brushwood." The town in turn has given its name to the distinctive tektites—called Bediasites—found in Texas, most of which have been discovered within Grimes County.
Bediasite Tektites - Meteorite Gallery
Bediasite tektites. Photos and information about meteorite finds and falls, and historical references. Preserving meteorites since 1998.
In approximately 1936, the first of these tektites were recognized by Virgil Barnes near Bedias, Grimes County, Texas and were named after this small town. By approximately 1950, they were confirmed along a narrow strip of land in nine countries.