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IN his contributions to NATURE on the “Origin of Tektites” Dr. L. J. Spencer1 has put forward the view “that tektites are not meteoric, though they are connected with the fall of large meteoric masses, but that they have resulted from the fusion of terrestrial rocks, especially in sandy deserts, by the heat so developed”.
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L. J. Spencer “Origin of Tektites”, NATURE, 131, 117, Jan. 28; 876; June 17, 1933
C. S. Piggot, Amer. J. Sci., 5, 21, 35, January 1931.
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DUBEY, V. The Origin of Tektites. Nature 132, 678 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132678a0
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