A tektite layer in Upper Eocene sediments of the New Jersey continental slope (Site 612, Leg 95).

Abstract

Describes a 20-cm thick layer containing microtektitic glass spherules which separates middle Eocene from upper Eocene siliceous nannofossil oozes. These microtektites presumably are part of the widespread microtektite strewn field of late Eocene age, found in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the equatorial Pacific, and the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean. Relates the bed to the lowermost of the three known late Eocene 'North American' tektite layers.-from Author