Strange yellow glass found in Libyan desert may have formed from lost meteor impact

[Oxytropidoceras]

Libyan desert’s yellow glass: how we discovered the origin of

these rare and mysterious shards, Elizaveta Kovaleva Lecturer,

University of the Western Cape The Conversation, November 20, 2023

 

Strange yellow glass found in Libyan desert may have

formed from lost meteor impact By Elizaveta Kovaleva 

Live Science, December 03, 2023

 

The paper is:

 

Kovaleva, E., Helmy, H., Belkacim, S., Schreiber, A., Wilke, 

F.D. and Wirth, R., 2023. Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence

for an extremely high-pressure-temperature impact event from

nanostructural study. American Mineralogist, 108(10), pp.1906-1923.

 

More PDFs of of Dr. Kovaleva's Publciations

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[rocket]

thanks. The desert glass is a wonderful material, never been there to find one myself but we have a small but nice collection of them

[Shellseeker]

Thanks for sharing , Paul...

Very interesting.  One of the billions of insights into something I did not realize...