Libyan Desert Glass - 11 Grams Gingko biloba

Gingko biloba

Many people are familiar with the beauty of its purple hues

likely to cover up missing material

It is sure to catch attention from anywhere in your home or office

and was first described in the early 1800s

Libyan Desert Glass - 11 Grams Gingko bilobaLibyan 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