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ArticleCommunications earth & environment2021

Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pleistocene Pantasma impact crater in Nicaragua.

Pierre Rochette, Pierre Beck, Martin Bizzarro, Régis Braucher, Jean Cornec, Vinciane Debaille, Bertrand Devouard, Jérôme Gattacceca, Fred Jourdan, Fabien Moustard and 3 more

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13 authors.

Pierre RochetteAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, UM 34 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Pierre BeckIPAG Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Martin BizzarroCentre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Régis BraucherAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, UM 34 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4637-4302
Jean CornecGeologist, Denver, USA.
Vinciane DebailleLaboratoire G-Time, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Bertrand DevouardAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, UM 34 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8774-1842
Jérôme GattaccecaAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, UM 34 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Fred JourdanSchool of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5626-4521
Fabien MoustardAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, UM 34 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Frédéric MoynierInstitut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 7154, Paris, France.
Sébastien NomadeLSCE, CEA, UVSQ et Université Paris-Saclay UMR 8212, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7373-0571
Bruno ReynardUniversité de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Lyon, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4782-6163

Funding

European Research Council 833275
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tektites are terrestrial impact-generated glasses that are ejected long distance (up to 11,000 km), share unique characteristics and have a poorly understood formation process. Only four tektite strewn-fields are known, and three of them are sourced from known impact craters. Here we show that the recently discovered Pantasma impact crater (14 km diameter) in Nicaragua is the source of an impact glass strewn-field documented in Belize 530 km away. Their cogenesis is documented by coincidental ages, at 804 ± 9 ka, as well as consistent elemental compositions and isotopic ratios. The Belize impact glass share many characteristics with known tektites but also present several peculiar features. We propose that these glasses represent a previously unrecognized tektite strewn-field. These discoveries shed new light on the tektite formation process, which may be more common than previously claimed, as most known Pleistocene >10 km diameter cratering events have generated tektites.

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PMID34409303
PMCPMC7611520

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