ejecta
noun/ɪˈd͡ʒɛktə/ · /əˈd͡ʒɛktə/
Etymology Neuter plural of Latin ējectus.
1
Geography, Geology, Natural sciences Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
- Distal ejecta are, by definition, those ejecta that occur at considerable distances from the source crater (>5 crater radii from the crater rim; see, e.g., Melosh 1989). They either consist of (usually fine-grained) rock and mineral fragments or are of glassy consistency.2006, Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl, Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record, Springer, →ISBN, page 57:
- Derived terms
- ejecta spherule