impactite

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noun

Any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.

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Meanings

nounimpactite (countable and uncountable, plural impactites)

plural impactites

  1. countableuncountableAny rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.

    Impactite is the term used for all rocks produced or affected by a hypervelocity impact event.

    2012, G. R. Osinski, Impact Cratering: Processes and Products
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    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.

    1944, Popular Astronomy, volume 52, page 195

Origin

From impact + -ite.

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