Articles for tag: desert, EarthScience, NaturalGlass, NaturalWonder

The Desert Where Glass Forms Naturally

Suhail Ahmed

  In the eastern Sahara, a pale gold shimmer hides a mystery written in molten sand. Scattered across the Great Sand Sea are chunks of natural glass born in heat so fierce it erased its own footprints. For more than a century, scientists have hunted the culprit – volcanoes, lightning, or something far more dramatic ...