strewn fieldn.
Geology.
A part of the earth's surface over which tektites of a similar age are found.
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1937 Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 49 167 There are no records of the discovery of australites in towns within the australite ‘strewn field’.
1961 Sci. Amer. Nov. 63 (caption) Estimates of ages of tektites in strewn fields are based on ages of rocks with which they are found.
1973 Nature 16 Feb. 431/1 Tektites..are apparently limited to four large areas (strewnfields) and four corresponding ages.
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