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Figure 45

From: Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea

Figure 45

Bone fragment splattered with meltglass in the destruction layer. (a) Photomicrograph of 3.5-mm-long charred bone from the palace. The yellow boxed area indicates an area of melted glass on bone, as shown in panels ‘c’ and ‘d’. Yellow arrows point to other areas with greenish meltglass fused to the bone. (b) SEM image of bone in panel ‘a’. (c) SEM close-up image of boxed area in panel ‘a’. Green dotted line marks the glass-to-bone boundary, as further shown in panel ‘d’. #1 represents unmelted Ca–Al–Si-rich sediment with no bone component; #2–3 represent partially melted sediment mixed with melted bone (hydroxyapatite); #4 presents charred bone. (d) Colorized SEM image of panel ‘c’ showing gradation of bone-and-sediment mixing, based on multiple SEM–EDS analyses.

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