spherule

Example Sentences

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They were looking for spherule particles, or tiny fragments of rock, left behind by impact.

From BBC

She points out that glass spherules tied to the PETM, presumably forged and thrown up in an impact, have been found off the coast of New Jersey.

From Science Magazine

Instead, what leaped from the lens were candy-colored shards and spherules — blue, pink and red plastics mixed with the dust like foul confetti.

From Washington Post

My samples of meteoritic dust and cosmic spherules have come from the tops of high mountains remote from industrial civilization, and from the bottom of the ocean.

From Scientific American

The mud and sand are dotted with glassy spherules—many caught in the gills of the fish—isotopically dated to 65.8 million years ago.

From Science Magazine