Libyan Desert Glass - 3 Grams saturating the landscape and decreasing

saturating the landscape and decreasing food supplies

Its name is derived from the Persian word lazhward

Pyrite crystals from Navajún

complemented with a stunning bezel set kite-shaped lapis lazuli

Libyan Desert Glass - 3 Grams saturating the landscape and decreasingLibyan Desert Glass (LDG), is a tektite found in the Sahara deserts of Western Egypt, near the Libyan border. No one is positive about how this tektite has formed. Some research suggests the impact of a meteorite may have caused it. The heat and pressure from this impact would have melted the silica through radiation, similar to the thermal radiation present in a nuclear explosion. Another theory is the bursting of an asteroid as it passes through