1. Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea.
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Bunch, Ted E., LeCompte, Malcolm A., Adedeji, A. Victor, Wittke, James H., Burleigh, T. David, Hermes, Robert E., Mooney, Charles, Batchelor, Dale, Wolbach, Wendy S., Kathan, Joel, Kletetschka, Gunther, Patterson, Mark C. L., Swindel, Edward C., Witwer, Timothy, Howard, George A., Mitra, Siddhartha, Moore, Christopher R., Langworthy, Kurt, Kennett, James P., and West, Allen
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CHARCOAL ,BRONZE Age ,MIDDLE Ages ,ZIRCON ,NUCLEAR weapons testing - Abstract
(a) Two melted zircon grains adjacent to a previously discussed melted quartz grain; (b) close-up of same zircon grains; (c) manually constructed EDS-based phase map showing baddeleyite grains in green. (b) Manually constructed EDS-based phase map showing baddeleyite grains (Bd = ZrO2) in green, zircon in blue, and melted mudbrick in red. (c) Zircon grain showing limited thermal alteration, yet sufficient to cause dissociation into bright baddeleyite grains at ~ 1676 °C. (c)-(g) Vesicles in melted mudbrick and roofing clay often are lined with a variety of crystals including elemental Fe, iron oxide, Fe phosphide (Fe2P), manganese oxide (MnO), calcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2), and calcium silicate (CaSiO3). [Extracted from the article]
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