Darwin Glass is a natural glass found to the east of Mount Darwin in the area known as the Darwin Meteorite impactcrater in West CoastTasmania just east of the West Coast Range. Mount Darwin, Tasmania Is a mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania. ... Artists impression of a major impact event. ... Tycho crater on Earths moon. ... Municipality of West Coast The Municipality of West Coast is a local government area of Tasmania. ... Capital Hobart Government Const. ... The West Coast Range of Tasmania, is a group of mountains in the western area of Tasmania - that has had a significant number of mines utilising the geologically rich zone of Mount Read Volcanics. ...
Fragments of this glass are found scattered over a 400 km2 area. Such an area is called a strewn field. The glass is light to dark green, white or black. The glass takes the form of twisted masses, fragments or chunks up to 10 cm. Internally it has a flowing texture caused by lines of elliptical bubbles.
It has been dated at 816,000 years old. The glass is an impactite resulting from the melting of local rocks due to the impact of a large meteorite. The crater left by this meteorite is at 42.18.39 South, 145.39.41 East. The crater is 1.2 km in diameter, 230 meters deep and filled with sediments. The meteorite was from 20 to 50 meters in diameter and released 20 megatons of energy. Impactite is rock created nearly instantaneously by the impact of a meteorite on sand (e. ... Willamette Meteorite A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earths surface without being destroyed. ... Look up crater in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A megaton or megatonne is a unit of mass equal to 1,000,000 metric tons, i. ...
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