Libyan Desert Glass: new evidence for an extremely high-pressure-temperature impact event from nanostructural studyOPEN ACCESS
Elizaveta Kovaleva, Hassan Helmy, Said Belkacim, Anja Schreiber, Franziska D.H. Wilke, and Richard Wirth American Mineralogist, preprint PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (5 October 2023): American Mineralogist, October 01, 2023LINK “The origin of Libyan Desert Glass…
Distinguishing volcanic from impact glasses—The case of the Cali glass (Colombia)
Ludovic Ferrière, Alvaro P. Crósta, Wencke Wegner, Eugen Libowitzky, Fabio Iwashita, Christian Koeberl Geology (2021) LINK “Natural glass occurs on Earth in different geological contexts, mainly as volcanic glass, fulgurites, and impact glass. All these…
Potassium elemental and isotope constraints on the formation of tektites and element loss during impacts
Tomáš Magna, Yun Jiang, Roman Skála, Kun Wang, Paolo A.Sossi, Karel Žák Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 28 July 2021 LINK “Potassium elemental and isotope systematics were investigated for a suite of central European tektites…
Terrestrial target and melting site of Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence from trace elements and Sr isotopes
Giampaolo P. Sighinolfi, Federico Lugli, Federica Piccione, Vincenzo DE Michele, Anna Cipriani Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 September 2020 LINK “Strontium isotopes and selected trace elements (Rb, Sr, REE, Zr, Hf, Th,…
Formation of Libyan Desert Glass: Numerical simulations of melting of silica due to radiation from near‐surface airbursts
Vladimir Svetsov, Valery Shuvalov, Igor Kosarev Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 26 March 2020 LINK “Libyan Desert Glass contains meteoritic material and, therefore, its origin is most likely associated with an impact event. However,…
Analytical methodology to evaluate the Terrestrial Weathering of Libyan Desert Glasses and Darwin Glasses after their formation
Leticia Gómez-Nubla, Julene Aramendia, Silvia Fdez-Ortiz de Vallejuelo, Kepa Castro, Juan Manuel Madariaga Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry pp 1–9, First Online: 07 November 2019 LINK “Libyan Desert Glasses (LDGs) and Darwin Glasses (DGs) are impact…
Overestimation of threat from 100 Mt–class airbursts? High-pressure evidence from zircon in Libyan Desert Glass
Aaron J. Cavosie, Christian Koeberl Geology (2019) LINK “Atmospheric airbursts over Russia at Chelyabinsk in 2013 and Tunguska in 1908 provide dramatic examples of hazards posed by near-Earth objects (NEOs). These two events produced 0.5…
Libyan Desert Glass area in western Egypt: Shocked quartz in bedrock points to a possible deeply eroded impact structure in the regionOPEN ACCESS
Christian Koeberl, Ludovic Ferrière Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 10 March 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is an enigmatic natural glass, about 28.5 million years old, which occurs…
Mid-Infrared Bi-directional Reflectance Spectroscopy of Impact Melt Glasses and Tektites
Andreas Morlok, Aleksandra Stojic, Iris Weber, Harald Hiesinger, Michael Zanetti, Joern Helbert Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 June 2016 LINK “We have analyzed 14 impact melt glass samples, covering the compositional range…
A comprehensive study of noble gases and nitrogen in Hypatia, a diamond-rich pebble from SW Egypt
Guillaume Avice, Matthias M. M. Meier, Bernard Marty, Rainer Wieler, Jan D. Kramers, Falko Langenhorst, Pierre Cartigny, Colin Maden, Laurent Zimmermann, Marco A. G. Andreoli Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2015) pp. 243-253 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.013 arXiv:1510.06594…
Unique chemistry of a diamond-bearing pebble from the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield, SW Egypt: Evidence for a shocked comet fragment
Jan D. Kramers, Marco A.G. Andreoli, Maria Atanasova, Georgy A. Belyanin, David L. Block, Chris Franklyn, Chris Harris, Mpho Lekgoathi, Charles S. Montross, Tshepo Ntsoane, Vittoria Pischedda, Patience Segonyane, K.S. (Fanus) Viljoen, Johan E. Westraadt…
