Mid Pleistocene Transition Impact
Unification of the Australasian Tektites and the Carolina bays

The suborbital trajectories followed by the tektites are constrained by physics of ejecta transport over a rotating planet. As was the case with Carolina bays, tektite researchers primarily draw straight line on flat maps to denote their perceived "rays" of tektite distribution. For the Ries, North American, and Ivory Coast correlated pairs of inpact structure and identified strewn field extents, only an asymmetric distribution is documented in the empirical evidence. Quite puzzling to us is the consistent application of rays in all possible 360º of azimuth in the case of the Australasian tektite strewn field. Such an overload of the known laws of tektite distribution has led to an expectation that the missing impact structure is on Indochina, smack dab in the heart of the strewn field.
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