Libyan Desert Glass

Libyan Deset Glass

Libyan Desert glass or Great Sand Sea glass is an impactite, made mostly of lechatelierite, found in areas in the eastern Sahara, in the deserts of eastern Libya and western Egypt. Fragments of desert glass can be found over areas of tens of square kilometers.

Libyan Desert glass has been dated as having formed about 29 million years ago.


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