Natural Libyan Desert Glass Meteorite Tektite impact specimen Perfect Bracelets

  

Product name Natural Libyan Desert Glass Meteorite Tektite impact specimen Perfect Beads Bracelets. Weight&Size 24.1 grams 10mm20. 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 is a silicate of mysterious origin that comes from a large field in eastern Egypt and western Libya. The glass is, by many, believed to have been created as the result of a meteorite impact. Another theory on the origin of the glass purportedly argues the glass is the result of a nuclear explosion. Ancient tools have been knapped from the material and a large carved piece of it has appears at the center of a scarab found in the tomb of King Tut a piece that has a lot of lore surrounding it and was, apparently, originally thought.