Fluvial Transport Model from Spatial Distribution Analysis of Libyan Desert Glass Mass on the Great Sand Sea (Southwest Egypt): Clues to Primary Glass Distribution

Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is a natural silica-rich melted rock found as pieces scattered over the sand and bedrock of the Western Desert of Egypt, northeast of the Gilf Kebir. In this work, a population mixture analysis serves to relate the present spatial distribution of LDG mass density with the L...

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Main Authors: Nancy Jimenez-Martinez, Marius Ramirez, Raquel Diaz-Hernandez, Gustavo Rodriguez-Gomez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-04-01
Series:Geosciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/5/2/95