摘要:
A fairly typical damage signature in AA tektites, this "spider crack" or radial starburst of scored channels is consistent with high-energy electrical arcing damage from a semi-solid state. Opposite the spider shaped score mark is a sub-planar "cleavage plane" having a commonly arranged pitting cluster of a few big pits surrounded by more numerous smaller pits. This cleavage plane w/ central pitting cluster, when found opposite the spider-shaped scoring, is consistent with electrical arcing damage that occurs when high current instantaneously heats a small volume of the tektite glass which promptly flashes to ionized vapor, a very good conductor, but also an internal wedge that then splits the tektite through its core, leaving the sub-planar surface with exposed vaporization pitting pattern, and the radial spoked gouges where surface charge also heated and removed tektite mass that flashed to vapor while briefly conducting in a classic Saint Elmo's Fire pattern.
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