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Australites: a unique shower of glass meteorites1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Charles Fenner
Charles Fenner*
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
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It is just over a hundred years since Charles Darwin, during his great voyage, visited Sydney, New South Wales. While there, he was given, by the explorer Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, a small and curiously shaped glassy object. In his ‘Geological Observations’ (1844) Darwin figured this object and speculated as to its origin, which he suggested was volcanic. This is the first recorded reference to what are now known as australites, many tens of thousands of which have been collected from widespread localities over the whole of southern Australia.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 161 , June 1938 , pp. 82 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1938

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Footnotes

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Read at the British Association meeting at Nottingham in September 1937; abstract in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1937, p. 356. A paper on similar lines was also read at the fifth annual meeting of the Society for Research on Meteorites at Denver, Colorado, in June 1937, and printed in Popular Astronomy, Northfield, Minnesota, 1937, vol. 45, pp. 504–507. [M.A. 7–78.] Compare C. Fenner, Australites, Parts I and II. Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 1934, vol. 58, pp. 62–79, 6 pls.; 1935, vol. 59, pp. 125–140 [M.A. 6–18, 208]; and L. J. Speueer, The tektite problem. Min. Mag., 1937, vol. 24, pp. 503–506.

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1 Read at the British Association meeting at Nottingham in September 1937; abstract in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1937, p. 356. A paper on similar lines was also read at the fifth annual meeting of the Society for Research on Meteorites at Denver, Colorado, in June 1937, and printed in Popular Astronomy, Northfield, Minnesota, 1937, vol. 45, pp. 504–507. [M.A. 7–78.] Compare C. Fenner, Australites, Parts I and II. Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 1934, vol. 58, pp. 62–79, 6 pls.; 1935, vol. 59, pp. 125–140 [M.A. 6–18, 208]; and L. J. Speueer, The tektite problem. Min. Mag., 1937, vol. 24, pp. 503–506.