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 …
Tektites - TSHA
Jan 1, 2001 · 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 …
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 …
Top 13 Places in the US to Find Tektites - rockchasing.com
Oct 8, 2024 · 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, …
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 …
Tektites | Jackson School Museum of Earth History
Sep 27, 2024 · 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 …
Bedias, TX - TSHA
Sep 20, 2023 · 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 …
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 Photos and information about meteorite finds and falls, and historical references.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 …