Scientists have traced the origins of the Libyan desert glass (LDG) to a meteorite crash, and published their findings in the American Mineralogist. Once described as a “physical and geologic enigma,” ...

Aaron J. Cavosie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for work not related to this study. In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic ...

In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic cataclysm. Libyan desert glass is the name given to fragments of canary-yellow glass found scattered over ...