A REPORTED TEKTITE TRANSPORTED FROM AUSTRALASIA AND FOUND AT GABRIEL GULLY MINING CAMP, CENTRAL OTAGO, NEW-ZEALAND

Authors
WARNES PN ORCHISTON W ENGLERT PA
Citation
Pn. Warnes et al., A REPORTED TEKTITE TRANSPORTED FROM AUSTRALASIA AND FOUND AT GABRIEL GULLY MINING CAMP, CENTRAL OTAGO, NEW-ZEALAND, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28(2), 1998, pp. 329-331
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand → ACNP
ISSN journal
03036758
Volume
28
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
329 - 331
Database
ISI
SICI code
0303-6758(1998)28:2<329:ARTTFA>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A tektite claimed to have been found in Central Otago, New Zealand, in the 1960s is documented. There is little surviving information about it, but we speculate that the specimen was of non-New Zealand (most li kely Australian) origin. It was probably removed from its original loc ation by human agency and discarded at a New Zealand mining site durin g che nineteenth century.