impactite

English

Etymology

impact + -ite

Noun

impactite (countable and uncountable, plural impactites)

  1. Any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.
    • 1944, Popular Astronomy, volume 52, page 195:
      Furthermore, the probability that the distribution of "lunar impactite" falls over the Earth's surface would exhibit the alinement along 3 great circles, which is characteristic of all known tektite deposits, is vanishingly small.
    • 2012, G. R. Osinski, Impact Cratering: Processes and Products:
      Impactite is the term used for all rocks produced or affected by a hypervelocity impact event.
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