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	Saudi Aramco World : Desert Glass: An Enigma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both tektites and Libyan Desert glass are characterized by etched, pitted surfaces, which in the case of some of the silica glass may have been obscured by the scouring action of the fierce Saharan winds.
		Libyan Desert glass never occurs in such distinctive shapes as dumbbells, rods, spheres, disks, and teardrops as do tektites, and the color of the glass is rarely as dark as the color of typical tektites.
		Both tektites and Libyan Desert glass may contain bubbles; those in the glass tend either to be elliptical, indicating deformation of the bubble during flow, or elongated and pointed, suggesting deformation of original pore space in material that barely melted.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197905/desert.glass-an.enigma.htm (2137 words)

	Libyan Desert
		The desert is very dry, and consists mainly of sand dunes.
		The Libyan desert covers eastern Libya and western Egypt, and touches Sudan and Chad.
		The Libyan desert is framed by Fezzan, Tibesti, Uwaynat, and the oases along the old run of the Nile.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/libyan_d.htm (44 words)

	Libyan Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Libyan Desert (Arabic: الصحراء الليبية) is an African desert that is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies southwestern Egypt, eastern Libya and northwestern Sudan.
		The desert's Jilf al Kabir Plateau has an altitude of about 2,000 meters, an exception to the uninterrupted territory of basement rocks covered by layers of horizontally bedded sediments, forming a massive plain or low plateau.
		There are eight important depressions in the Libyan Desert, and all are considered oases except the smallest, Qattara, because its waters are salty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libyan_Desert (490 words)

	Desert Glass - Ancient Atomic Residue or Evidence of a Meteorite Impact? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This Libyan desert glass, as the substance has been named, was discovered in 1932 by Englishman Patrick Clayton, a geologist who was conducting a survey of the Egyptian desert.
		Libyan desert glass is transparent to translucent and often contains trails of small bubbles, wispy white deposits, and fl swirls.
		The 9000-year-old volcanoes found in the region near the Libyan desert glass are far to young to have produced the 28 million year old glass deposit.
	www.skepticreport.com /mystics/atomicglass.htm (2102 words)

	Libyan Desert Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Libyan Desert of Egypt is one of Earth's most remote and inhospitable regions.
		Libyan Desert Glass is classified by most meteoriticists with the group of curious natural glasses known as tektites.
		Libyan Desert Glass is found widely scattered over an area 130 km north to south by 53 km east to west.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~afs/feb98_1.html (1048 words)

	Libyan Sahara Meteorite Expedition, by R. Pelisson
		The changing colors of the desert are intensified by the final rays of the Sun.
		It is a photographer's dream as evening shadows cling to the contours of the landscape, and the fading light paints the desert in pastels.
		The surface fragments however, have been exposed to the desert winds for hundreds or thousands of years, and have a polished appearance and blunted shapes.
	www.saharamet.com /meteorite/press/article.html (4935 words)

	Libya: News and Views
		Libyan television, monitored in Tunis, said the congress had also called on the three parties involved in the case, Libya, Britain and the United States, to ``remove any obstacle'' preventing the trial going ahead as soon as possible.
		Libyan state radio reported that the General People's Congress, the country's top legislative and executive body that is to formally endorse any decision on the Lockerbie issue, had been summoned for Tuesday.
		Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi said the United States and Britain must drop their conditions if they want a trial of two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing take place in the Netherlands, the official Libyan news agency JANA reported Monday.
	www.libyanet.com /1298nwsc.htm (7277 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Searching for Zerzura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The vast barrenness of the Libyan Desert stretches from the Nile westward across Egypt and northern Sudan to Tripolitania in Libya.
		To modern Egyptians, the Libyan Desert is increasingly a realm of hope—a hope based on extensive irrigation schemes to increase agricultural land and relieve crowding in the Nile Valley.
		Legends of the desert echoed in the minds of the inhabitants of the Egyptian oases: tales of spirits and shadowy raiders, of lost oases and lost treasure.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200206/searching.for.zerzura.htm (2694 words)

	Libyan Desert Glass Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As on many other trips to obscure and remote places of the globe, I was looking for anything forwarded from an outer-space address, but on this trip, we were specifically hunting Libyan desert glass, a particularly lovely variety of tektite.
		Libyan desert glass, 29 million years ago was probably formed when an asteroid or comet hit the surface of the earth like a huge atomic bomb, unleashing enough destructive force to not only liquefy the rocks, sand and dirt at ground zero,
		But wherever the original impact responsible for Libyan Desert Glass occurred, the results came to rest in the wilds of the Western Egyptian desert.
	www.meteoriteman.com /desert01.html (542 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Desert passions
		The occasion of the conference was the prize of desert fiction that was awarded to al-Koni by his own country, after receiving recognition and numerous awards in France, Switzerland and more recently in Asila, Morocco, where he was selected as the Arab Novelist of 2005.
		Thus desert dwellers -- Bedouins, Tuaregs, or nomads in general -- are commonly perceived as primitive and backward.
		The desert of Wadi al-Hayat (literally, the Valley of Life) is as voluptuous in its curves as it is intriguing in its vastness marked by sand dunes, resembling in their repetition a natural arabesque.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/773/cu5.htm (971 words)

	Impactites, Libyan Desert Glass, Impact Breccia, Egypt, Egyptian, Tutankhamun
		Libyan Desert Glass is a rare and beautiful impact glass, found in only one remote location on Earth, near Libyan/Egyptian border.
		It is associated with an ancient and unknown meteorite impact, somewhere in the North African deserts.
		One of the most beautiful of all meteorite-related materials, Libyan Desert Glass is now extremely difficult to obtain, as the area is off-limits to collectors.
	www.aerolite.org /impactites.htm (261 words)

	The Libyan Desert
		This immense desert to the west of the Nile spans the area from the Mediterranean Sea south to the Sudanese border.
		The desert's Jilf al Kabir Plateau has an altitude of about 1,000 meters, an exception to the uninterrupted territory of basement rocks covered by layers of horizontally bedded sediments forming a massive plain or low plateau.
		There are seven important depressions in the Libyan Desert, and all are considered oases except the largest, Qattara, the water of which is salty.
	www.travel-to-egypt.net /libyan-desert.html (356 words)

	Rocks and Crystals - Libyan Desert Glass
		I believe that we may fairly lay claim to Libyan Desert Glass as our own "discovery" because, although known to scientists since the 1930s, it is only very recently that workers interested in the esoteric properties of rocks and crystals have begun to realize the tremendous potential offered by this unique material.
		Libyan Desert Glass is found only in a remote and inhospitable area of the Great Sand Sea of Egypt, near the Libyan border.
		Libyan Desert Glass is not cheap, because it costs a lot of money to mount an expedition to the remoter parts of the desert to collect it.
	www.sinfin.net /rocks/rockslist8.html (743 words)

	Libya: News and Views
		Libyan leader Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi Sunday had a telephone phone conversation with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan over ways to equip the envisaged neutral African peace-keeping force to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
		The Libyan minister for African Unity, Ali Triki, said the force, whose composition he did not spell out, would be charged with "disarming" rebel groups active in the country and to guarantee the security of (the country's) borders.
		Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi has dismissed a French court ruling that he could be prosecuted in France over the 1989 bombing of an airliner in which 170 people died.
	www.libyanet.com /1100nwsc.htm (8531 words)

	Libyan desert glass expedition
		Libyan Desert Glass is a natural glass composed of nearly pure silica (98 wt %).
		The only explanation for these observations is that Libyan Desert Glass results from a meteorite impact on a silica-rich target.
		SILICA 96, Meeting on Libyan Desert Glass and related desert evens, July 18 1996, Bologna University, Edited by Vincenzo de Michele.
	www.saharamet.com /desert/impactite/glass.html (153 words)

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		Since its discovery in 1932, Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) has been a mystery which has excited the attentions of scientists - and the authors of sensational books on science "facts" - ever since.
		The piece shown on the left is typical of the Libyan Desert Glass found laying in the sand.
		Desert glass, by contrast, is 98% pure silica, the purest natural glass in the world.
	www.pisces-press.com /C-Nav/ldg.htm (1116 words)

	Libyan Desert Glass Jewelry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Libyan Glass could have been made by the action of a comet or asteroid hitting the sand in the Libyan desert and causing it to vaporize into these beautiful droplets of glass.
		No one knows exactly how it got their, but scientists think that may be the remains of an asteroid or comet hitting the Libyan sand and causing the sand to vaporize into these beautiful droplets of glass.
		Libyan Desert Glass is natural glass, made of melted and re-fused sand in the desert of north Africa.
	www.sciencemall-usa.com /ldgpendants.html (260 words)

	Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Likewise, the temperature in the Libyan desert can be extreme; in 1922, the town of Al 'Aziziyah, which is located west of Tripoli, recorded an air temperature of 57.8 °C (136.0 °F), generally accepted as the highest recorded naturally occurring air temperature reached on Earth.
		Native Libyans are primarily a mixture of Arabs and Berbers.
		Libyan Arabs have a heritage in the traditions of the nomadic Bedouin and associate themselves with a particular Bedouin tribe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libyan (5929 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Thirst kills scores in Libyan desert
		The Libyan authorities have launched a search for survivors in the Sahara desert, after the bodies of 93 suspected illegal immigrants were found near the country's southern border.
		The Libyan attorney-general gave permission for the bodies to be buried where they were found as they had decomposed.
		Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has in recent years championed the cause of African unity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1337634.stm (278 words)

	LIBYAN DESERT GLASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It occurs in pieces weighing up to 16 lbs in the Sand Sea of the Libyan desert, in an area roughly 130 by 53 kilometers.
		The composition and structure of the glass are consistent with a hypothesis that the glass was formed from melted desert dune sand and subsequently cooled over a period greater than 24 hours in an Earth atmosphere.
		No Libyan Desert Glass has been found at the nearest meteorite crater, located in Libya, ~150km to the west.
	glenavalon.com /ldglass.html (205 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Libyan Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Libyan Desert LIBYAN DESERT [Libyan Desert] northeast part of the Sahara Desert, NE Africa, in SW Egypt, E Libya, and NW Sudan; called the Western Desert in Egypt.
		Sahara SAHARA [Sahara] [Arabdesert], world's largest desert, c.3,500,000 sq mi (9,065,000 sq km), N Africa; the western part of a great arid zone that continues into SW Asia.
		Slave routes across the Sahara: although historians have tended to focus on the Atlantic slave trade in African people, the numbers transported northwards across the desert are truly staggering.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/27676.html (676 words)

	Origin of Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The strewn field of the Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is located in the Western Desert of Egypt nearby the Libyan border (part of the Great Sand Sea).
		The Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is in its chemical and physical characteristics absolutely single and with no other natural glass comparable.
		With its coarse, sandy crusts, desert glass is found in fissures (desiccation cracks) of neogene, lacustrine deposits (gravel, sands, clays).
	hometown.aol.de /SLVehicles4/LDG/LDG.htm (1264 words)

	EGYPT'S NEW FRONTIER - FROM SIWA TO SINAI WITH MAADI'S PRE-WW2 DESERT EXPLORERS, Saturday November 29, 1996
		It is primarily thanks to a handful of early 20th century daredevil desert explorers that we were able to trace their geological makeup and chart their every dune and hollow.
		Three times he accompanied desert explorers Prince Kamal al-Dine Hussein (son of Sultan Hussein Kamel) and Ahmed Hassanein Bey (later Pasha) the discoverer of Gabal Oweinat, on their famous expeditions into the Libyan Desert in search of the mythical Oasis of Zarzura, and, an alternate route to the Oasis of Kufra.
		When the Murrays were not touring the desert, they were entertaining the many desert lovers among their friends in their Maadi semidetached house at the corner of Roads 18 and 79 (now in the process of being pulled down).
	www.egy.com /community/96-11-29.shtml (1959 words)

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		Douglas Newbold explores the south Libyan Desert with camels, reaching the Wadi Howar and Bir Natrun.
		John Ball publishes his definitive article 'Problems of the Libyan Desert' in the Geographical Journal, inspiring explorers for the next decade with the quest for the mythical 'Zarzura' oasis.
		Hundreds perish in the desert, many were saved by Clayton and the Mamur of Dakhla who mobilised all the available motorcars to search for the wandering refugees.
	www.fjexpeditions.com /desert/history/expeditions/expeditions.htm (5565 words)

	Libyan Constitutional Union, USA, Morocco & Libya
		The Libyan economy itself is in such bad shape that It has been receiving massive cash infusions, mostly from Saudi Arabia.
		Some three years ago as an open rift between the Libyan regime and U.S policy became imminent, the United States sponsored a Libyan dissident movement, which was then introduced to Saudi and Moroccan officials as a potential substitute for the Gaddafi regime.
		They were not so much motivated by any sense of sympathy with the people of Libya as by their willingness to go along with their strongest and most trusted Western ally.
	www.libyanconstitutionalunion.net /USMOROD.htm (1137 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Chronicles \| Man of the desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1921 and 1923 the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Mohamed Hassanein was the first to chart the famous Libyan desert and discover the two lost oases, Kufra and Al-'Uwaynat.
		It commented, "Egypt must undertake that mission because the Libyan Desert is contiguous with Egypt's western border and the Nile Valley and because it is important to learn the nature and contours of the land located near Egypt's western border."
		Also, before starting the journey, Hassanein met with the Libyan ruler Idris Al-Senussi, who was reluctant to allow Forbes to go on the expedition for fear that if anything untoward should happen to her it could sour relations between him and Great Britain.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/494/chrncls.htm (3289 words)

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		Society-LIBYAN-BEDOUIN The Libyan Bedouin consist of the nomadic and partially sedentarized Bedouin living in the Libyan Desert, specifically within the Cyrenaica region of Libya and the Western Desert of Egypt.
		According to Obermeyer, (1969), the 1960 population of the whole Western Desert of Egypt was 98,000, most of whom were Bedouin.
		In the Western Desert of Egypt, there is apparently great variation in both subsistence and settlement patterns.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7858 (1049 words)

	Poison gas factory in the Libyan desert
		LIBYAN POISON GAS FACTORY REOPENED -- ABC News has learned that the Libyan leader Colonel Quadhafi has re- opened his poison gas factory in the Libyan desert.
		Analysts say the Libyans are making two kinds of chemical agents, one that blisters and burns the skin and lungs, and a second, in far smaller quantities, that attacks the central nervous system.
		Libyan leader Qadhafi has repeatedly denied making chemical weapons and for a time it appeared that Libya had suspended operations at the Rabta facility.
	www.fas.org /news/libya/900308-131321.htm (745 words)

	MagWeb Europa: WWII North Africa: British vs. Italians: 57 Military History and Product Magazines
		Flying in the desert was tough enough, but while the RAF had great experience at "tropicalising" its aircraft to keep out sand particles, the Italians did not.
		The Arabs and paratroopers of Is' Libyans fought hard on the 10th amid a howling sandstorm, but on the 11th the division began to disintegrate.
		The shape of the desert war was about to change completely, and a legend was about to be born.
	www.magweb.com /sample/seuropa/seu55daw.htm (9336 words)

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