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Contact: Andrea Estrada
andrea.estrada@ia.ucsb.edu
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University of California - Santa Barbara
Caption: These are photos of melt glass known as trinitite formed at the ground surface from the melting of sediments and rocks by the very high temperatures of the Trinity nuclear airburst in New Mexico in 1945. This material is very similar to the glassy melt materials now reported from the cosmic impact YDB layer, consistent with the very high temperature origin of the melt materials in the YDB layer.
Credit: UCSB
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