Libyan Desert Glass AAA - Gemstone Beads Bracelet

Incredibly rare rarity in breathtaking quality.

You will receive a bracelet as shown

Bead size/style to choose from:
8mm

~Handmade from Berlin

~Repair Guarantee

~Natural gemstones of the best quality on a sturdy stretch cord

~18cm (If you have a particularly large/small wrist, please let us know)

It is usually assumed that the glasses were most likely created by the impact of a meteorite that fell in North Africa around 28 to 30 million years ago. At high pressure and temperatures, the sandstone that was on the surface at the time was melted and the liquid melt was thrown away. If it cools down quickly during the flight phase, glass could be formed. However, no impact crater has been found so far.

The desert glass consists of 98% lechatelierite, a natural quartz glass. Inclusions of baddeleyite, which forms from zircon sand at temperatures of over 1700 °C, as well as traces of the meteorite (up to 0.5%) were detected, which also excludes the possibility that it was formed as a deposit from a lake enriched with dissolved silicon dioxide. The desert glass is often classified as an impact glass, but such an assignment causes difficulties because, by definition, impact glasses belong to the proximal impactites that are found in the immediate vicinity of the impact site,[1] but such an impact has not yet been found. It differs from tektites (as distal impact rocks that occur away from the impact site) in that it has an up to 30 times higher content of water inclusions of up to 0.16%.

An alternative theory suggests that a hydrovolcanic explosion brought SiO2 gel to the Earth's surface. Volcanic activity, such as that known from the Clayton craters, is documented in large parts of the northeastern Sahara. However, the meteorite material sometimes contained in the LDG speaks against this theory.

Another theory says that the glasses were created in an airburst, which was triggered by the atmospheric explosion of a cosmic impactor. Such an event would be comparable to the Tunguska event, but with a much higher energy release (up to 1020 J is assumed).[2] This energy would have been enough to melt rocks and sand near the surface without creating a crater.

Libyan desert glass was used as a tool or arrowhead as early as the Neolithic period; A twelve centimeter long hand ax from this era is exhibited in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, among others. Over time, the relatively unspectacular appearance of the rare mineral repeatedly led to confusion with conventional glass or ceramics. In 1922, Howard Carter considered the material from the scarab in the pectoral of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun (Carter find number 267d, Egyptian Museum, inv. no. JE 61884) to be chalcedony, a type of quartz.

It was the English geologists Patrick A. Clayton and Leonard James Spencer who scientifically recorded LDSG for the first time in 1932, collected larger quantities and published the study results in 1933.

In 1998, the Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele finally managed to prove, using a refractometer study, that the scarab of Tutankhamun's pectoral was also a cut piece of Libyan desert glass.


Gemstones & crystals produce a variety of effects as healing stones, chakra stones, lucky stones, ritual stones or protective stones.

When you start looking into the topic of crystals and gemstones, it can be a little overwhelming at first. What makes the small and large energy stones so special? Which one is right for me and what effect is it known for? And then what do I do with it? Don't worry, we felt the same way at the beginning. The first thing you need to know: You can't really do anything wrong. Gemstones can be easily integrated into your everyday life.

Gemstones are considered powerful companions, especially at a time when we spend most of our day looking at small screens. We quickly forget the world around us and feel separated - from nature, our fellow human beings and ultimately ourselves.
Even if you quickly forget it with the dazzling colors and extraordinary cuts: gemstones come from nature. They arise from magma inside the earth or through high pressure on a rock and can transfer this energy to us. It often takes many thousands of years for a stone to penetrate the earth's surface.
The stone you finally hold in your hands is many years older and carries a lot of wisdom and power. Let this thought ground you, arrive in the moment and look not only to the future, but also to what has already been. This is the only way we can learn.
Whether you just wear your new companion and let it work on you ~ or use it for rituals and ceremonies is now in your hands.


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