2009, Rob Thurman, Trick of the Light: A Trickster Novel, Penguin (→ISBN)
“It's a Pele's tear from Hawaii. Lava that solidifies into the shape of a drop or tear, named for the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes.
2009, Paul Malmont, Jack London in Paradise: A Novel, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)
At abreak, shelooked up at him witheyesasdark as obsidian, like Pele's tear.He feltsuddenly not at all like the captain of a crew of performers, ...
2011, Mim Harrison, Wicked Good Words: From Johnnycakes to Jug Handles, a Roundup of America's Regionalisms, Penguin (→ISBN)
Pele's tear. Take a droplet of volcanic glass from the end of Pele's hair: that's one The Nearly Lost Lexicons of America.
2012, Gary Kissick, Winter In Volcano, Random House (→ISBN)
It's unwise for a mainland haole tourist to pocket so much as a Pele's tear or a petrified strand of her hair. Perpetrators of such crimes invite a dark ...
2015, Rebecca Carey, Valérie Cayol, Michael Poland, Dominique Weis, Hawaiian Volcanoes: From Source to Surface, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 178:
(a) KS08‐18T (200μmbar scale); Fo82.6 olivine phenocrysts in a Pele's tear ejected with ash and pyroclastics on 27 March 2008 are close to equilibrium ...