Abstract
The formation of the Australasian tektites (AAT) corresponds to prior to the Matuyama-Brunhes transition (773 ka) [1]. Here we investigated the glassy objects found in the previous study [2] in the marine sediment in the South Atlantic that is outside of the AAT strewnfield.
Our investigation was carried out on the marine clay sediments from ODP Leg 175, Hole 1082C near the Walvis Basin, South Atlantic. The depth of the 40 cm u-channel (2x2 cm) sediment sample is between 81.4 and 81.8 mcd from the study of [3].