Libyan Desert Glass, an impact glass found in the Saharan Great Sand Sea of the Libyan-Egyptian Libyan Desert. Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED ShareAlike Lire en français Scientists have traced the origins of the Libyan desert glass (LDG) to a meteorite crash, and published their findings in the American Mineralogist.
The sheer amount of pressure and the coinciding heat may have been enough to superheat the sand in the Sahara and form Libyan Desert Glass. Even better, this theory offers an explanation for the lack of a crater where the glass is found. Bingo!
Libyan Desert glass has a very high zircon content, and when under extreme temperature and pressure zircon can transform into a different mineral, reidite. These temperatures are typically only achieved in a cataclysmic event such as a meteorite impact.
In summary, while the exact details of the formation of Libyan Desert Glass continue to be a subject of scientific research, the prevailing theory is that it was created during a meteorite impact event in the Sahara Desert, which led to the melting and rapid cooling of local sand and rocks, resulting in the formation of this unique natural glass.
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