impactite
nounEtymology From impact + -ite.
1
Any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.
- 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:
- 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:
- Related terms
- impactor