Libyan Desert Glass - Impact Deposit

Alternate Names Libyan tektites
Local Language
Coordinates 25° 23' 60" N; 25° 18' 0" E
Notes
  1. (Weeks et al., 1984)
Country Libya

Related Countries :
  1. Libya
Region North Africa (Lybia ~Egypt)
Date Confirmed 1932
Notes
  1. (Weeks et al., 1984)
Age (Ma) 28.5
Notes :
  1. (Weeks et al. 1984)

Method :
  1. Fission-track dating method
Impactor Type N/A

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Spherules
N/A
Tektites
Yes
Indivudual Glass Clasts
N/A
Source Crater
N/A
Geology
compact hard glassy rock, transparent, yellowish/greenish, and dark or milky. Airbubbles, cristobalite inclusions and dark/brown inclusions (possibly decomposed iron oxides) can also be found in the glass (Gomez-Nubla et al., 2017). May have parent sedimentary rocks but is controversial
  1. Gomez-Nubla et al., 2017
Other Shock Metamorphism
N/A
  1. (Weeks et al. 1984)
Shatter Cones
No
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
No
Diaplectic Glass
No
Coesite
No
Stisovite
No