Libyan Desert Glass - 3 Grams aquamarine

aquamarine

Weight: 21

This was a scientific breakthrough for linking modern-day birds to dinosaurs

This mineral is naturally gray or black in color and contains the same crystal structure as the mineral corundum

This specimen somehow looks rugged and yet elegant all at the same time

Libyan Desert Glass - 3 Grams aquamarineLibyan 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