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Figure 46

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 46

Bone associated with salt and melted tin oxide (SnO2). (a) Photomicrograph of 4.7-cm-long human or mammal rib bone from the ring road on the lower tall. NaCl is present at high concentrations in the sediment (~ 54 wt.%) and on the bone (~ 46 wt.%). (b) Tin oxide particle (SnO2) appears to have collided with sediment on the bone while it was molten, possibly as unoxidized tin. The melting point of SnO2 is ~ 1630 °C, but unoxidized tin melts at ~ 232 °C. (c) A similar tin oxide particle from the temple, ~ 150 m away from the lower ring road sampling site. Particles are fused into meltglass. (d) Tin oxide splashed onto sediment around the bone in panel ‘a’.

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