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Name: Libyan Desert glass RRUFF ID: R060357 Ideal Chemistry: SiO2 Locality: Libyan Desert, Sahara Desert, Egypt Source: Herb Obodda 017 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale tan amorphous fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R060357.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder, amorphous | ||||||
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REFERENCES for Libyan Desert glass | |
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Clayton P A, Spencer L J (1934) Silica-glass from the Libyan Desert, Mineralogical Magazine, 23, 501-508 [view file] |
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Faulques E, Fritsch E, Ostroumov M (2001) Spectroscopy of natural silica-rich glasses, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 96, 120-128 [view file] |
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Kovaleva E, Helmy H, Belkacim S, Schreiber A, Wilke F D H, Wirth R (2023) Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence for an extremely high-pressure-temperature impact event from nanostructural study, American Mineralogist, 108, 1906-1923 |
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