PSEUDO TEKTITES

Some tektites are classified as “pseudo” because there are no craters around the strewn fields to denote a meteorite crash. Therefore, it could be categorized as obsidian, however air bubbles inside these glass stones have been analyzed, showing extremely low air pressure. This tells scientists that they cooled outside of our atmosphere, so they are space gems! The reigning theory is that pseudo tektites were formed after large volcanic eruptions that flung magma into the atmosphere, where it cooled and fell back to earth.